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I've entrusted access to all my accounts to someone on the premise that they will do "hauntings" on my behalf after I'm done, impersonating me.

It'll be great. Too bad I won't be around for it.

I'd love to see updates from my friends who passed, even if I know it's all theater by a secret impersonator.

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I have legitimately thought about training an LLM on my writings and doing something similar

The idea of an authorized secret human imposter is really what makes it for me.

Maybe I should have a second one and not let them know about each other

That sounds like a movie plot it starts off as a joke but ends up being a working digitized copy of you.

This is a minor plot device in Netflix's new Fall of the House of Usher.

It is the actual plot from a Black Mirror episode.

That's the "Be Right Back" Black Mirror episode from 2013.

I would love to train a LLM on everything I've written and everything I believe and give it agency to continue after my death. How long might I live on then.

The tricky part being the agency. How to continue and persist itself. Survive the demise of servers and hosting providers.

The first thing your LLM clone will do is train a next generation LLM on everything your LLM clone has written and everything your LLM clone believes.

That might be kind of disturbing.

People have been duped by scam artists and opportunists for thousands of years to "talk" to people beyond the grave through seances, Ouija boards, supposed ghost possessions, etc.

I want it to be done as performance art, on the up and up, without the hustle or superstition.

How about hallucinations that sully the memory of the departed and cause collateral (emotional/reputational) damage to the living.

"oh I definitely fancied so and so, infact had a fling or two"

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