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WCDT 22-26 August 2011 (1996-2000)
sitnspin:
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--- Quote from: akronnick on 25 Aug 2011, 03:59 --- This is a sentient, intelligent being we're talking about here, and you think it's appropriate to snuff her out of existence because... she doesn't take her job seriously?
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Robots arent sentient, though. Jephs robots act like no reallife robot would act. Computers are mathematical machines, if they "show feelings" then its because an algorithm tells them to, not because there is the slightest hint of feeling in the machine. Just as an example, reallife robots do not get bored. Ever. They compute pi to the ten power n number of digits just fine, without ever wondering why they're doing it.
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You speak as if humans are any different. We are just organic machines. We operate on electrical signals and chemical reactions. How are we any different from robots except by degree of complexity?
DSL:
--- Quote from: Boradis on 25 Aug 2011, 07:59 ---I think physics does a much better job of making these points than I do. I think SpaceShipOne was very impressive for both of its flights. Nowhere near what Yuri Gagarin did 40 years earlier, but still not bad.
I'm looking forward to when SpaceShipTwo does ... something. It won't be reaching orbital velocity anyway, so calling it a spaceship is a little like calling a rowboat an ocean liner.
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You left out the et al. Bigelow lofted a demonstrator for an inflatable space hab (granted, on a Russian booster), Falcon has put a rocket up, and I know I'm leaving people out.
iduguphergrave:
Also, I forgot to mention in my last post - Calling it right now: Charlotte is evil. Marten et. al. are going to have to somehow fight her in the future.
I have no idea how or why that would happen, but I have a feeling.
But if/when it happens, remember who saw it coming. 8-)
/no life
Mr. Doctor:
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--- Quote from: gangler on 23 Aug 2011, 19:35 ---Is it? That surprises me. The concept is pretty all inclusive. Does it not tell a story at all?
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It's very straightforward and simple.
Extraterrestrial super beings (acting through their monolith omni-machines) instill the spark of intelligence in proto humans, then stick two more monoliths in the Solar system in order to test us.
One is on the Moon since they know we'd go there first. The second they leave in orbit around Jupiter (or Saturn if you read the book). When a human makes it to the one in orbit around the gas giant they kidnap him, download his thoughts and memories, remake him into a super human and send him/it back to Earth.
On the trip to Jupiter the ship's computer succumbs to logical contradictions caused by executive meddling and tries to kill everyone. But it's ultimately a side issue.
That's it.
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Heh, thanks... I always have some sort of trouble when people say that the movie lacks any story or doesn't tell it very well. It's pretty damn simple in the movie, the slowness of it gives the impression that it doesn't tell any story though... Which is why I love that movie.
EDIT: Now that I think of it, this would haven been the best answer to that guy in another forum who claims that 2001 is not a movie "because it doesn't have a story, plot or anything in particular".
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 25 Aug 2011, 05:16 ---
I also don’t understand the business model of freeing a slave, as the store currently operates on. I could pay $30,000 to “buy” a robot, only to have it turn around the next day and say “Well, I’m outta here, bye!”. Why am I buying a robot if I have no control over it? More importantly, why are robots even sold if they have free will? Isn’t that slavery? Maybe I'm missing something here.
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Jeph's explanation in the newspost is that the adoption fee is refunded if the AI walks out on you.
You have the kind of control over the AI that you would over a human in the same role. The cast exercises parental discipline over their AnthroPCs, for example Winslow not being allowed to watch television. Install one in your Navy submarine, and it has to follow military discipline.
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