This is kinda creepy...

[avoid_slow_death]

Mother Reunited With Deceased Daughter In VR Show

Last week, a Korean TV special called Meeting You aired which focused on a family’s loss of their 7-year-old daughter. And in an unsettling finale, the program attempted to reunite the girl with her mother using a virtual reality recreation, complete with audio.

kotaku.com

 

[Brick In The Wall]

It's not just creepy, it's also sad, and kinda messed up. It will never be their daughter and it could definitely cause some mental health issues.

I saw an article a few years back about a company that can make a copy of your neural network. They sell it as a way of "living forever." This kind of reminded me about that.

 

[Broken Chimera]

I just heard about that yesterday. It's a good way to have a memory of her child, but it can't replace her. If she has access to that at home she could eventually try to stay with her in VR. It's both a good idea and sad at the same time.

 

[voyager]

That's messed up, don't like personal tragedy being dramatised for public consumption with all those piano cues, tears, and so forth. It's repulsive and reminds me of the Truman Show. But there is some potential in the technology a long way down the road, not just for the porn industry but in general probably. Think Matrix with it being hooked up to your system, hopefully for entertainment purposes and not repression. But maybe we already are.

 

[peacefully31425]

It's pretty weird but probably will be normalized to a certain extent as the technology gets better. I could definitely see this being used in therapeutical settings to gain some kind of closure.

 

[Shero]

This is almost a 1:1 copy of a Black Mirror episode, which is already unethical.

 

[Fragile]

i don't see this as something bad, quite the opposite in fact. it's true that the technology is just not there yet, but with some time, and the help from psychologist and other experts we could see a future in which the grieving process could be shortened or helped with these methods.

absolutely no one grieves the loss of a child like a mother, and if there are ways to help them and make them cope then let them enjoy the company of their child one last time, many parents in similar situations would do anything for a moment like this.

the only unethical thing about this is the public nature of the moment, i don't know about this show specifically, but documentaries and shows like this profit from strong emotions and controversies, they try to exploit and milk people for their own benefit. and i have a general idea of how cutthroat and predatory the entertainment industry is in south korea. maybe by some miracle they have the absolute best intentions in mind, but this kind of stuff is something that should be done in private and only shown to loved ones if we are going to pretend that this has any therapeutically use, but at the same time all technologies need early adopters and they need to show their reaction and feelings in a public way for others to judge if this is a good idea or something that they could be interested in, so i'm really thorn about what to feel about the show.

 

[aiuto]

i don't see this as something bad, quite the opposite in fact. it's true that the technology is just not there yet, but with some time, and the help from psychologist and other experts we could see a future in which the grieving process could be shortened or helped with these methods.

absolutely no one grieves the loss of a child like a mother, and if there are ways to help them and make them cope then let them enjoy the company of their child one last time, many parents in similar situations would do anything for a moment like this.

the only unethical thing about this is the public nature of the moment, i don't know about this show specifically, but documentaries and shows like this profit from strong emotions and controversies, they try to exploit and milk people for their own benefit. and i have a general idea of how cutthroat and predatory the entertainment industry is in south korea. maybe by some miracle they have the absolute best intentions in mind, but this kind of stuff is something that should be done in private and only shown to loved ones if we are going to pretend that this has any therapeutically use, but at the same time all technologies need early adopters and they need to show their reaction and feelings in a public way for others to judge if this is a good idea or something that they could be interested in, so i'm really thorn about what to feel about the show.

I absolutely agree with what you are saying. If there is the possibility to spark some joy into a person full of grief there is nothing wrong about that. But as you said, maybe it's more unethical to gain money from the grief of others with television that there is in recreating a children in a virtual environment.

 

[voyager]

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Have you ever watched Minority Report? It's not very good, but it touches this theme. In the film Tom Cruise is a cop who has lost his family, wife and daughter iirc. Anyway what he does is buy drugs from the street as enhancers and then watches his family movies in a sort of trance as holographic images so he can somewhat interact with the moments and memories. The thought as such is actually pretty cool.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I saw an article a few years back about a company that can make a copy of your neural network. They sell it as a way of "living forever." This kind of reminded me about that.

Can you remember what the article was and where? Long shot but you never know. ..