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onyxengine t1_ir124j2 wrote

Reply to comment by kvlco in What happens in the first month of AGI/ASI? by kmtrp

That was a great movie, i hated the ending. Singularity cancelled for some silly girl!

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kvlco t1_ir12bad wrote

Also, the stupid luddite terrorist becoming the hero of the movie was too much for me..

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BbxTx t1_ir13k7m wrote

Seems silly at first but realize that it will probably be some religious groups that will do some crazy anti-AGI stuff. Some people will never accept a machine “singularity” vs their religious beliefs.

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gameryamen t1_ir3ksrs wrote

One of my favorite details from the Altered Carbon books was that Catholicism was Earth-bound. The Church took the position that digitizing your consciousness was an affront to God, so all the other planets got settled without any Catholics. They leaned into this a bit in the show, but not in terms of interplanetary settlement.

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red75prime t1_ir1zm3m wrote

I expect AI rights movement to do dangerous stuff on par or worse than religious fanatics.

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ObjectiveDeal t1_ir3u2na wrote

Have you seen the republicans party. Anything science they hate

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QuantumReplicator t1_ir2knyn wrote

I didn’t interpret those terrorists as the heroes at all. I think they were meant to have equal levels of moral ambiguity vs the Human-ASI hybrid who was controlling humans with a hive mind. Both could be easily misunderstood by an outsider.

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pentin0 t1_irtz87m wrote

I've learned to accept the fact that most human beings (even those on this sub) are uncomfortable with nuance

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BbxTx t1_ir13v59 wrote

The ending hinted that the singularity wasn’t actually “ended”, there were nano-bots at the very end that were re-emerging.

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onyxengine t1_ir142u4 wrote

Yea thats true, it was still ridiculous that his gf got him to call it off when it was in full swing.

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Cult_of_Chad t1_ir1jhpk wrote

Always remember that we, the novelty seekers, adventurers and futurists are the mutants. The average person is very risk and change averse.

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kmtrp OP t1_ir1ph20 wrote

Yes! Exactly, the plot was going so well... and they stopped it all with a mortar and a small force of old mercenaries led by a lost girl...?

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CremeEmotional6561 t1_ir3tzsn wrote

>Singularity cancelled for some silly girl!

Singularity cancelled for some silly money coming from some silly human cinema goers. (Didn't see the movie as I'm no cinema goer.)

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