>>12154194Here's another question that builds on OP's question.
Lets say we have simulated beings. Perfect emulations of the human brain running on computers. Now you think about all the things that make you (you). Your hopes, dreams, aspirations, memories. Due to the technological surveillance of the modern era ALL this shit is being collected, cataloged, and archived for posterity. So in 30-300 years when they got simulated beings, they can input all the digital data about you and bring you back to life.
This is digital resurrection.
This WILL happen someday if the technology exists and the data about us still exists. The usefulness of a near perfect human AI with human thoughts and memories is too useful. People WILL demand we recreate famous or important figures of history such as Albert Eisenstein, Abraham Lincoln, or Tupac Shakur. Maybe somebody will even recreate Adolf Hitler trapped in a torture simulator, sell it for cash and say "go nuts, don't feel bad about torturing this one, this guy deserves it." Or maybe they'll just mass produce cheap copies of random people. You yourself may even get swept up into this. Even if there's not much value in your or you're not that important, if your data exists online in digital format, then maybe they'll recreate and copies of you as a bargain bin or bulk discount kind of deal. What would they do with you? Maybe you'll be forced to work as a slave, trapped in a computer simulation, or maybe you'll be forced to act as a character in a video game, or as OP asks, just plain torture.
