105 sats \ 14 replies \ @llamabyte 29 Jul 2023 \ on: If money weren’t an issue, where would you live? bitcoin
When my shares in Stacker News pay dividends and i become rich, i would live i nthe Ex Machina House with monthly helicopter drops:
The most unrealistic thing from the ex-machina movie was that the guy who invented and worked on this amazing new thing was actually an alcoholic.
No way you can do all that work while drinking and being hung over.
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Good points. In an attempt to devils advocate, he may have become that AFTER his success.
The hedonistic treadmill is such that having all the sex, land and privacy he wanted, he may have gotten extremely bored.
Also, just realized the drunkeness explains his lapse in security, making her too smart and not black boxed somehow until verifiable alignment.
Personally, i have a technique against that.
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You honestly can't think of one successful alcoholic? It's not good for you, obviously, but there have definitely been some hard working and prolific drunks. Here's an article that lists a few.
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Note how pretty much all of them are not in exact sciences like math or physics, software, etc.
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Riiiiiiight.... so they must mean Buzz Aldrin the painter, then?
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Wasn't it common for people to drink A LOT back during the space program ?
You're telling me the ruskies were not alcholics.
I agree with you in general, and personally.
Oh and Mcaffee....lol
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Upon his return to earth, with seemingly little left to accomplish in life, his life deteriorated. Under the weight of depression and alcoholism, his marriage fell apart, and he withdrew from friends and family.
He became an alcoholic after coming back from the moon. No similar success story after that.
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Oof. Yes to the things, no to the Ex Machina.
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Why do you not want a loving sexbot with perfect body symmetry in every major racial group, are you racist or something ?
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lol, You have seen that movie, right? It's an allegory of the abuse of a cult leader on their victim. Honestly, I haven't even watched it all the way through because it's so transparent what the script is from the first 20 minutes. It's a variant of the Midas Touch fable, or similar, about the trap of material satisfaction without any soul or principles to rely on, it boils down to reptilian power relations.
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NOPE. wow.
You should watch it through, you missed the real message.
After you watch it, consider how many movies you've skipped over like this and how your life is a sham.
Everything is about sex, Except for sex. Sex is about Power - Freud
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Ecstasy, knowledge, power, abundance... all of them tools used by the psychopath who wants to be the centre of attention, the locus of control. Maybe it's because I'm in my middle years and my libido isn't as big a driver of my motivation, I would suggest that there is a big gulf between charisma and genuine sexual ecstasy, and that the sex is just the tool used to soften up the victims to make them oblivious to what is really going on.
The reason why I turned it off, was because I could see within the exposition the hollowness of every character in the play, that the robot was being portrayed as a victim but also is involuntarily programmed to play the same power games with the visitor as she was trained to do by her master. To me it was just another variant of the cult leader story, and the inevitable evil that follows their apotheosis (in their mind).
I turned it off for the same reason I turned off Scarface before the end of the first act of the play. It was just porn for people who fantasize about being powerful, and this is a kind of cult in itself, I have seen and interacted with many such people. Just go talk to "satanists" and other types of edgelording. They think this mind games shit is fun, and think the resultant horrors are the punchline.
It's only funny if you don't realise that's what is going on around you every day, in the media, in the town, in the country...
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That's not what the movie is about ! Nor Scarface.
Please consider that you might be going through life completely misunderstanding everything !
The cage is for your safety !
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It's morbid, to dwell on the inevitable entropy of the universe, without any hope of better.
Life is already dark enough without spending 2 hours watching some of the worst kinds of human behaviour, without any sense of justice or closure or resolution.
If you don't get it, I don't have time to explain it to you.
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