Her truth:
Death is a necessary evil. Without death, everyone goes mad. All meaning vanishes. Death might need to exist. That mechanical body might need the ABILITY TO DIE.
(Fearing expulsion from the academy, she rarely voices opinions on this matter.)

Lets create a mechanical body that resembles our own in form and characteristics, yet is alive—one with strong pain-pleasure sensitivity and the ability to create things itself—and transfer ourselves into it!
🧶

In Altered Carbon, we have Stacks. Stacks store human consciousness and enable body transfer. Death becomes a commodity: you're gone if you can't afford a new body. Can afford one, and you can escape the end as long as finances allow.

For context, the quoted "ad" is for "using ai to 'bring your loved one to life' after they die. This isn't a new techbro concept - we've seen ai photo restoration before. However this is, in my opinion, on a deeper new level.

죽음이라는 한계가 없으면 의미도 있을 수 없다고 철학책에서 그러던데 딱 그거네요

다양한 기술자들과 자본가들이 "우리가 게임/영화/소설/매체 등에 나오는 이런 것들을 실제로 만들 수 있을 것 같아요!"
하고선 그냥 만들어버리는데, 그 목적은 장황하지만 결국 이유는 하나; "존나 멋있어 보여서"다.

하지만 이 "박해의 고리"가 등장한 매체는 당연하게도 "이런 거... 만들지 마세요... 만들려던 사람들도 다 그만 하고 집 가세요... 위험해요..."를 주제로 한다.

[데스티니] 엑소, [워해머] 드레드노트, 부두술과 강령술, 좀비까지, 왜 매체 밖에서는 멋있다고 하지 않는지에 대해 생각해보라는 것이다.

Tod uses this story to scare the internal mechanics team interns into traveling in pairs and logging where they're planning to go in the plant at the beginning of the work day.