Ah… this brings back many memories of the Everlive Corporation! This was a project I worked on for kicks 12 years ago. The idea was to create a seemingly real organization that purported to be “Facebook for the Dead” where you could warehouse your loved one forever in a state of suspended animation (kind of like they were in a cryogenic center) except that you could continue to communicate with them through the “Hive Mind Platform”. The sinister part was that all the minds of the so-called ‘deceased’ were meshed together into a giant HiveMind OS that had unintended consequences. The reason for doing this the first place was that throwing brains away into cemeteries was a “senseless waste of human life” because those brains contained enormous computing power plus experienced that could be utilized in a flesh computer.
I had a website up for a number of years to see if it would attract any attention. The website was taken down but this is where it used to be. I’ll create another post with some of the original content for fun and see if anyone wants to resurrect this.
Since then, I thought it would be fun to create an AI chat site that does something similar and call it, “Shrine”, in which the living can train AI on their posts, tweets, conversations, etc, so that when they DO die, there will be a chatbot trained on them to pick up (their conversation) where they left off.
