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Things I learned from Transcendance

posted 11 years ago by fredpoint
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1) Apparently, self-awareness is very difficult to prove.

2) You can build an advanced high-tech datacenter to specificallty control the internet and networks in order to change the world, no problem, the government doesn't care.

3) Mind uploading is probably faster than uploading all the seasons of The Simpsons with a DSL connection.

4) It's cool to have an AI because it's the most intelligent thing on earth, but when you surprisingly learn that it can measure your heart rate and knows about your body heat, it freaks you out.

5) Even as an AI connected to the internet, you preffer to struglle and use an old vynil turntable rather than iTunes.

[–] Rottenbeard 10 years ago

That these threads used to be funny.

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[–] theredgiant 10 years ago

66. When a you have a power failure, break all your electronic devices, and then use your broken laptop to keep the door open.
67. Supply all hardware, robots, and men to build a state-of-the-art factory and be completely clueless what the Ai is using all the hardware for. Then freakout when you see a regenerated hand.
68. You can build an entire company and the said factory while still on the run from cyber terrorist and FBI.

[–] a9447363 10 years ago

69. Anything can be done easily.

[–] shehateme01 10 years ago

70. Once the internet is shut down, technology that existed before the internet, such as phones, will be lost - perhaps forever. Unless you go to Boston, you have no chance of making a call.

71. If your two friends somehow live on via nanobots that water a group of sunflowers, you'll be able to pick those two sunflowers out of a line up.

72. If the FBI decides to cooperate with terrorists, it's best to trust them completely and not worry about taking precautions to prevent them from doing anything unexpected and potentially harmful.

73. An artificial super intelligence can learn to keep a man alive after he suffers a gruesome head wound (somehow caused from being kicked in the head) - but the gruesome head wound will remain. The best that can be done is to cover it up with a hard hat.

74. A terrorist assassin should have a chance to confront their target in front of an audience before committing murder-suicide.

75. A good storyteller leaves some details up to the audience to figure out, like how AI finds a way to magically heal its zombies and solar panels alike, or to manifest a physical version of itself that may or not have been created from a corpse

[–] uscmd 10 years ago

76. Sci fi movies that bunp up against tough religious issues are going to make some people crazy.

Just think if a few cartoons can send a muslim death squad to kill 20 in France what they do, if the knowledge gleaned from an AI program was not at all flattering for their side. If it were possible to connect with the collective knowledge and experience of all mankind. If you could go back and talk with anyone in history, only to discover some historical figures we have put atop tall pedestals, were in fact not deserving.

[–] stacy0912 10 years ago

77) What an original idea...wait, no. Revolution already covered the Nano, AI, and worldwide blackout premise on NBC. ---with muskets.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2070791/

~Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable~

[–] JimBonig 10 years ago

78. AI and nanobots can't be shut down for practicing medicine without a license.

79. AI scientists consider self-awareness the only possible major threat, and when confronted with the possibility only pose a single unanswerable question about self-awareness then give up.

80. Oil/electric/power/technology firms go home when their industries shut down, forget about public safety let alone any sort of profit, and give up, waiting for problems to fix themselves.

81. Viruses can get anywhere except through some copper mesh.

82. AI still needs glasses.

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[–] Macrofun 10 years ago

88. Omnipotent AI can literally do anything with nano-technology except for building some banging boobs for your flat chested girlfriend

[–] stazza 10 years ago

100 FTW ALL movies are fictional and not designed to be scrutinized as if EVERYTHING in them was perfect and real world. Tis the very essence of what "Fiction" is.

[–] johnvukovich 9 years ago

Good observation on #88, but I also learned that:

89. Even though the contractors "can't price it high enough" and they spend millions on/under Brightwood, it still looks like a crappy town even two years later.

90. The Brightwood (International?) Airport still has a dirt runway? Where's the shuttle to the rental car counter or the skycap to load our bags into the taxi? If there even IS a taxi...?

91. A white floored hallway THAT long would need a Roomba robot. They could have CG'ed one in.

92. A man who has been blind his entire life will call Morgan Freeman "Jesus" when he suddenly gains his eyesight, and Mr. Freeman won't correct him and say "No, I played God in Bruce Almighty. You didn't see the movie son? Oh... sorry. I forgot."

[–] gd0803 9 years ago

93. You should use your death-bed picture onscreen (the one where you still had wires connected to your brain) when initially uploaded rather than any other...you can always change it later.

94. A puddle is apparently connected to the internet and will alert all those uploaded of your imminent arrival.

95. A monkey's consciousness will "just scream" if uploaded.

[–] ImGergely 8 years ago

[Thanks guys, I like this thread.]

96. The most clever scientists don't know how to silence their phones properly. But a chicken wire mesh roof will probably suffice.
97. Dying is like Windows Update: you have to reboot to be able to work again.
98. While rebooting, your consciousness is only accessible via a limited text console. After a few minutes your image is available with a few bad MPEG2 artifacts in the outer blocks, but your audio codec is still the worst in computer history.

[–] ssllaasskk 8 years ago

0.)
Don't trust anyone over 0.

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