OBS-ADJ-005
Adjacent
How Cultures End Things
文化は、ものごとをどう終わらせるのか
When is a person, a relation, or a presence treated as over?
Cultures disagree about when an ending has occurred.
OBS-ADJ-005
Adjacent
文化は、ものごとをどう終わらせるのか
When is a person, a relation, or a presence treated as over?
Cultures disagree about when an ending has occurred.
Other observations
OBS-CHILD-001
Child observation
持ち主より長く生きるアカウント
The person died. The account spoke the next day.
The interface remained. The speaker changed.
OBS-CHILD-002
Child observation
Last Seen: Unknown
The internet records when we stopped speaking, not what happened after.
We know when someone stopped posting. We usually don't know why.
OBS-CHILD-003
Child observation
死者が答え始めるとき
AI changes digital remains from something we retrieve into something that can respond.
An archive preserves a voice. A model can generate another sentence.
OBS-ADJ-001
Adjacent
Biological off is not digital off.
OBS-ADJ-002
Adjacent
Social Remains
Profiles, conversations, and graphs remain after the speakers have gone quiet.
OBS-ADJ-003
Adjacent
DEAD COUNSEL
A body of recorded thought can still be asked a present question.
OBS-ADJ-004
Adjacent
The Synthetic Person
Traces can be assembled into a persistent social actor.
OBS-ADJ-006
Adjacent
Old pages do not reveal whether their authors are still alive.