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Researcher Salon with Sarah Friend | Good Death

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Sarah Friend presents her Summer of Protocols research project 'Good Death,' exploring digital death and its relationship to biological death across AI agents, avatars, gaming worlds, and blockchain protocols like Ethereum. Friend brings artistic and philosophical perspectives to examine whether protocols themselves should be understood as having life and death cycles.

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