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Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 13, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

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The interesting thing about this is that, theoretically, if a computer has access to all the information you do, including, not just the videos and photos, but somehow your memories too, then it could recreate a simulation of your relative that you would not be able to distinguish from the real thing. For all practical purposes, they could bring the person back to life, as long as they incorporated all the information that anyone had of them so that no one would realize anything was off.