>>14185383>So you want to be remembered for being the asshole who left a copy of himself so that he would be remembered forever.For as long as anyone can be bothered to store the data somewhere, yeah. People already keep photos of long dead people on their walls and maintain monuments specifically to honour and remember dead people. These faces on the walls belonging to people who nobody left alive actually knew.
I've worked at a cemetery. I've seen the entire spectrum from new tombstones being erected with writing like "forever in our hearts" written on them, to forgotten tombstones being carried away on a dump truck because there's nobody left alive who cares enough to visit and maintain the grave anymore. People might care to visit for longer if there was more left behind than a rock with some names written on them. It would also help if these replicas could just be kept on some cloud server, while taking up very little physical space.
>I think that's an extremely insidious idea that will be used to rewrite history.You may well be right about that, but that has always been pretty standard. Everyone who writes memoires will tend to twist history to put themselves in a better light, and it's fairly common that politically inconvenient information is omitted from history education. There have even been plenty of cases where certain people would attempt to erase certain historical data for various reasons. I'm really not sure if mind replicas would make this any more or less prevalent.
