Netflix launches ‘Black Mirror’-style Streamberry site. Eep.
Remember what happens in that episode? Be warned.
Netflix’s Black Mirror takes aim at the very streaming platform you’re watching it on, with a fictional version of the service called Streamberry taking a controversial approach to TV production.
In the first episode of Season 6, “Joan Is Awful,” a mid-management tech company employee called Joan (Annie Murphy) finds her life replicated in a Streamberry TV show. Within a few twists and turns, we find out how the series is being made — users sign away the rights to their digital likeness when signing up to the service, then are monitored through their personal devices.
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Yves here. Given how significant clever marketing labels and propaganda have become, I am very leery of implicit Big Promise labels like Digital You and digital twin. It strongly connotes that medical AI will be able to create an informationally exact replica of your body.
This seems to run into what I call the Star Trek Transporter fallacy. The transporter appears to be widely agreed to be the most impossible future technology presented in the various series. There are many objections, such as the practical obstacles to “beaming” through all sorts of dense materials.
But I recall the early objections to the claims about how the transporter would work (that it would send not your particles but information about your particles, and then you’d somehow be recreated at the destination) was that it would take too much information, that it would be impossibly costly in energy terms to transport that much information, even if there was a way to identify and store all that information. I cannot find a rendition of that sort of complaint via Google, but the more recent ones are marvelous, even if not as on point with the Digital You concept. For instance, from Forbes:
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Η Ειδική Ομάδα Προληπτικών Υπηρεσιών των ΗΠΑ εξέδωσε μια νέα σύσταση χθες, συμβουλεύοντας τους γιατρούς πρωτοβάθμιας περίθαλψης να ελέγχουν όλους τους ενήλικες ηλικίας 19 έως 64 ετών για αγχώδεις διαταραχές.
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