XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.hollywood, alt.politics
XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
c186282 wrote:
I did buy "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" a VERY long
Printed in 1968.
time ago. Ridley Scott had an incredibly artistic and
seriously dystopian vision of that.
The main flaw was setting it so near in the future,
2019. Interstellar colonies - likely not in 200
Nor even the level of genetics on display. The movie
came out in 1982. A window of almost*40* years.
years at best. The finest minds have been trying to
sneak around Einie and lightspeed for 100 years with
no success. Wormholes - forget it. "Warp drive" -
needs lots of "negative energy" which probably
does not exist. If there's a way around lightspeed
it's gonna be some sleazy greasy quantum trick.
Ask the UFO people - prob something to do with
biasing "indeterminacy" ...
The huma-bots ... looks like hardware AI is going to
They're not bots. They're genetic constructs. Hence
the moral issues.
get "there" a lot sooner. The new slave class will
be electronic, not biological. Much neater.
Until it gets TOO smart ... then we're fucked.
We WILL let it get too smart - for "convenience".
What could go wrong eh ? Note the collapse of the
recent AI Accords/Safety efforts ... "convenience"
and power-thru-AI/bots WILL rule. Our nature.
Had not seen "Blade Runner" for a LONG time ...
but it suddenly came back into the play loop
for TV networks. Good actors. Horribly depressing
and distressing plot. Hate to say it, but it's
probably a lot like what WOULD happen if the
proposed huma-bots came to exist.
Oh, for some reason, LA was shown as like 50%
east Asian and it rained all the time like the
old flix about London. "Climate change" was
not a thing that far back, so WTF ?
Yes, it was. It's a theme in the movie. People
were leaving earth because of it.
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