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)
#TenDaysTenFilmsTenFriends
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Mina
in reply to 𝗣𝗠𝗝 👽 [ 🙈 😅 ] • • •Peter Sellers was such an incredible actor, wasn't he?
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mikako.num
in reply to Mina • • •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.
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Mina
in reply to mikako.num • • •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".
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in reply to Éibhear 🔭 • • •That's an interesting story. I'm definitely gonna dig into that story.
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si_irini
in reply to Éibhear 🔭 • • •Good to know! Thanks
Nice information
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And I have to watch that movie!
Maybe Elmo watched it too and than dreamed of his future….for us…all…
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Mina
in reply to si_irini • • •But unlike the rest of us, he didn't see it as a totally dystopian future.
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in reply to Mina • • •You two are 100% correct.
#Elmo and the other tech mogul #SciFi nerds from their high-school and college days 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.)
*
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1105…
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2023-06-18 15:20:07
si_irini
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •Can you send me a link to the podcasts? 😊
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in reply to si_irini • • •Here it is:
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1105…
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2023-06-18 15:20:07
si_irini
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •Perfect!
Thank you 🙏🏼😊
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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:
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1107…
Where I erred, in particular, was the rise of #DarkTriad* billionaires like Elmo and...
*Very insightful article in #TheAtlantic yesterday:
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2023-07-20 20:47:33
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...#PeterThiel, who's seemingly plowing ahead to realize #PhilipKDick's #SecondVariety, despite, IMO, belonging to the #TESCREAL sects.
I should have thought more of the US' Robber Barrons of Industry of the #RoaringTwenties and earlier.
It was all there.
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Source:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
NO PW:
archive.is/NjmrS
The Sociopaths Among Us—And How to Avoid Them
Arthur C. Brooks (The Atlantic)Mina
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •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.
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in reply to Bruno Nicoletti • • •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.
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in reply to Mina • • •@jwz Even though I know that movie in and out (and love it), this short clip really made my evening. Thank you!
Yes, this is exactly what those "longtermists" want. My argument usually is: "It is not about earth or environment, because neither earth nor the environment gives a damn about us. Earth will recover as it always did, and the environment will keep changing. It is about our own survival. And if we're not interested in investing in our survival, we can as well just kill ourselves now!"
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in reply to imdat celeste :v_tg: :v_nb: :v_genderfluid: [witchzard] • • •Absolutely correct.
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si_irini
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •Yes indeed, totally correct.
All of it
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HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
in reply to Mina • • •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. 😉
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Mina
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •Actually, all typos are entirely mine.
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in reply to Mina • • •Oh? LOL
So, Skynet/The Matrix is already upon us, lol.
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si_irini
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •It is…
😂
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in reply to si_irini • • •To be honest, I just typed down, but lazy as I am, I didn't check for spelling mistakes, once I was done.
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in reply to Mina • • •So, voice recognition via Whisper or YouTube didn't do the trick, I guess.
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in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •I didn't even try.
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in reply to Mina • • •Oh?
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Mina
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •The video was only 2 minutes.
It didn't occur to me to use a program for a few lines of text.
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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...
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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.
They would literally kill 3 billion people to safeguard their vision coming true.
It is one of the things I wish I could "unread" and forget (2nd link), as almost all of us will not be able to do anything against it:
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1110…
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2023-09-11 13:24:30