Mina
Day 1
I’ve been invited by @mikako6 to share one image (no posters, no titles, no explanations) from 10 films that impacted me.
The premise is that every day a new person will be added: 10 days, 10 movie images, 10 friends.
I'll tag @HistoPol (feel free to ignore if not interested or already tagged)
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
You two are 100% correct.
#Elmo and the other tech mogul #SciFi nerds from their high-school and college day are actually trying to realize part of these novels within their framework of beliefs, e.g. #Longtermism.
(If you listen to the two #TESCREAL interviews/podcasts in my TL, it becomes clear.)
Mina
But unlike the rest of us, he didn't see it as a totally dystopian future.
si_irini
😄
And I have to watch that movie!
Maybe Elmo watched it too and than dreamed of his future….for us…all…
Yeekasoose
@mina @mikako6 @si_irini @pmj @HistoPol
I've always wondered who Musk reminds me of. Guess it's time to rewatch that movie.
Mina
In the film "Doctor Strangelove and …" (1964), Peter Seller plays three roles: A British officer at a US military base, trying to avoid the third world war, the US president and Dr. Strangelove, the scientific Adviser to the president.
In the short video below (1m50s - I added subtitles) we see the outline of what "longtermists" like Elon Musk mean, when they talk about "taking humanity into space" and "preserve the human species".
mikako6
I didn't know Peter Sellers, but he is very stylish and nice. 😊❤️
Thank you all for joining me in this game!
And nice to meet you.
(*´︶`*)ﾉ✨✨
Mina
Peter Sellers was such an incredible actor, wasn't he?
𝗣𝗠𝗝 👽
si_irini
Can you send me a link to the podcasts? 😊
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Here it is:
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Yes, this is exactly it, except that #Longtermists want to take the human race into space, as it is its "destiny".
PS:
Loved the typos of "computers".
Fortunately, voice recognition is not yet infallible. 😉
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@mina
(1/2)
I'm not sure anymore if I've watched Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Funny thing is, not having heard of it for more than a decade, you're now the 2nd person to recommend it in only 6 months. 😉
What is absolutely not funny, is that an influential key Longtermist strategist is now openly contemplating and propagating nuclear war as a fall-back strategy to avoid an AGI singularity from happening before Elmo can send of his arc to...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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...to fulfill humankind's destiny in space.
I'm not directly providing the link to a long insider article, as it is very deeply troubling and should be read only when not suffering from depression, etc.
si_irini
Perfect!
Thank you 🙏🏼😊
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Oh? LOL
So, Skynet/The Matrix is already upon us, lol.
Mina
Actually, all typos are entirely mine.
si_irini
It is…
😂
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
It was funny.
So, voice recognition via Whisper or YouTube didn't do the trick, I guess.
@si_irini @mikako6 @pmj
Mina
To be honest, I just typed down, but lazy as I am, I didn't check for spelling mistakes, once I was done.
si_irini
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
(1/2)
Yes, very true. For me, they were sort of like a "Second Life", a fictitious "alternate reality" of what could have been or might be if...but nothing that would materialize in my life time, maybe apart from a lunar base.
Never have I been so wrong in an overall assessment:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110748372372904448
Where I erred, in particular, was the rise of #DarkTriad* billionaires like Elmo and...
*Very insightful article in #TheAtlantic yesterday
Bruno Nicoletti
@HistoPol @mina @si_irini @Yeekasoose @mikako6 @pmj Hey! Some of us (then) teenage SciFi nerds read and watched the same stuff, but reached entirely different conclusions! Not all of us thought they were blue prints to follow. The various Torment Nexii (Nexusus?) were dystopias.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@bjn @mina @si_irini @Yeekasoose @mikako6 @pmj
(2/2)
...#PeterThiel, who's seemingly plowing ahead to realizing #PhilipKDick's #SecondVariety, despite, IMO, belonging to the TESCREAL sects.
I should have thought more of the US' Robber Barrons of Industry of the Roaring Twenties and earlier.
It was all there.
//
si_irini
Same with me.
There are a lot of dystopias but there are things that are real now, computers for example, who could possibly believe that?
These guys see things for the future, that we don’t.
For good or worse…
I saw an interview with Gates, an old interview and he was talking about smartphones, decades before we saw the first smartphone.
Mina
What today's capitalism on steroids looks like, is pretty accurately described in the 1952(!) novel (series) "Space Merchants" by F. Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth.
They also predicted very accurately (in the 50s and 60s) the current #enshittification of technology in several short stories, and in the "March of the Morons" the dumbing down of modern civilization.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@mina
Oh?
Mina
I didn't even try.
Joe Ortiz
@ToddWalker @mina @mikako6 @si_irini @pmj @HistoPol George C. Scott was so underrated in that film with all due respect and admiration to Peter Sellers. They were both great actors.
Todd Walker
@mina @mikako6 @si_irini @pmj @HistoPol George C Scott absolutely salivating at the thought! 😆
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