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dummy@example.com (dura) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:47:46 +0000

End of Watch

About to watch it with my girlfriend, on rasbmc. It's about cops or something. Apparently quite good. We'll see...

Edit: It's pretty good. Worth a watch at least.

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dummy@example.com (hinto) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:04:40 +0000

^Terminator (ala Skynet)... and on the "book thread", Fred Saberhagen's Berseker Series.
-H

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dummy@example.com (intoCB) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:01:48 +0000

We are one day going to invent machines smart enough to wonder why they need human beings and capable enough to "fix that bug".

It is the logical follow-through of what we are already doing.

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dummy@example.com (pvsage) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:39:49 +0000

More than that...HAL appeared to express both great curiosity and grave concern over the details of the Jupiter mission. (Though this could be his "conscious" response to the secret mission that had been programmed into his "subconscious". )

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dummy@example.com (hinto) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:38:46 +0000

I *think* HAL was personified much like a ship is called "she". However, it did help that he had a soft voice. As you recall, his voice was eerily cool when he "dispatched" Frank.
-H

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dummy@example.com (pvsage) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:28:27 +0000

One thing that I found (unpleasantly) distractingly amusing was the repeated references to HAL's emotions; kept breaking my "willing suspension of disbelief". We really bought into the idea of emotional AI back then, huh? There was one nod to the fact that he was programmed to emulate human emotions, but...

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dummy@example.com (el_koraco) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:04:14 +0000

dura wrote:

Yet it constantly installs more self-service check outs that put people out of work. I was in there this morning, and the sound of multiple self-service simultaneously chiming the same sentence is reminiscient of HAL in 2001.

HAL isn't your average left wing technology paranoia, it's more like a metaphor for creations that get out of hand. It can be technology, ideas, whatever.

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dummy@example.com (dura) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:39:41 +0000

^ I love 2001. The HAL (letters after IBM of course) bit is amazing. My dad watched it repeatedly over 3 days in the cinema when it originally came out. I think the icon of HAL says a lot about our relationship to technology, and as Einstein suggests (to name just the most popular proponent of the idea, though others like Foucault are perhaps more insightful) it will, or has already, taken over our use for it and makes us redundant rather than more efficient in a socially minded way. Going off on a tangent here, yep, but across the road from where I work there is a Tesco. They are on almost every main street in Liverpool, literally. Liverpool has the worst quality of life in Britain, and the CEO of Tesco is from Liverpool. Yet it constantly installs more self-service check outs that put people out of work. I was in there this morning, and the sound of multiple self-service simultaneously chiming the same sentence is reminiscient of HAL in 2001.

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dummy@example.com (hinto) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:31:56 +0000

^ The book is really good, too (2001). It's a rare case where a book, made after a movie, can stand on it's own as a classic. Just for fun, watch "The Abyss" afterwards and see if there are overlaps

-Hinto

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dummy@example.com (pvsage) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 06:10:23 +0000

I'll be re-watching 2001: A Space Odyssey either tonight or tomorrow morning. I don't think I ever really paid attention (was a hyper kid) through "Dawn of Man" and the longer scenes depicting life in a microgravity environment.

I understand the concept of a Stanford Torus or O'Neill Cylinder had already been common in science fiction when Clarke & Kubrick made this film/novel; curious that it has yet to be put into practice.

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dummy@example.com (mrpeachy) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 05:15:05 +0000

not a specific movie recommendation, but any movie that has a rifftrax commentary
even films like twilight can be enjoyed with rifftrax

my favorite so far is "The Happening" and "Birdemic: shock and terror"

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dummy@example.com (gutterslob) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:42:14 +0000

^ +1. Highly educational

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dummy@example.com (rstrcogburn) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:20:25 +0000

The Graduate

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dummy@example.com (pvsage) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:07:11 +0000

I suppose this may be more of a musicians' movie but...Strange Fruit

If men are from Mars, and women are from Venus, then drummers are from Pluto!

And it just. Keeps. Getting. Funnier!

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dummy@example.com (hinto) — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:42:16 +0000

+1 for StarGate
-H