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A man works to develop an artificial intelligence for a secret military robot soldier project.

With a dark, calm tone, this movie brushes up against all the right topics. It encourages strong empathy for artificial intelligence in a way rarely seen elsewhere, and I find it deeply moving. Very highly recommended.

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• 2022-09-15

• 2016-03-20

2022-09-15 ∞

• 4:30 -- Both a man and a woman are injured! I'm not sure who died there, but I'll assume a woman died. Certainly that man died.
• 13:45 -- Houlong - Taiwan
• 17:15 -- What's what the eyes remind me of Riddick - (2013 movie)
• 37:30 -- See also Clarke's three laws.
• 1:17:00 -- Random military hand signals are unnecessary.

• 1:19:45 -- Why would a prototype have a military chassis?

So why did the mostly-humans all act like that?

2016-03-20 ∞

• Would sending a philosopher have solved all problems in this movie?

  A cold war with China has forced the west into
  the deepest recession in recorded history.

• 2:45 -- Traumatic brain injury, Penetrating head injury
• 6:00 -- That wakeup was awfully confusing without a medical bed scene.
• 9:00 -- Turing test

• 10:45 -- Also sleep with me?

  • Oh don't be like that. Smart girls are hot.
• 39:15 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady boy

Pooneh Hajimohammadi

• 15:30 -- I want to say I recognize her, that she's Krysten Ritter, who I know from Breaking Bad - (2008 show). But that's not her.

  • Oh, her name is Pooneh Hajimohammadi.

• 16:45 --

  • Quantum computing
  • "Electrons floating on superfluid helium" (Superfluid helium-4)
  • Nanotechnology
  • Electronic circuit
  • Microfabrication

• 17:00 --

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Stanford University
  • National Security Agency
• 17:30 -- I take back wanting to sleep with her.

• 18:30 -- "Three Block War - The battle, the negotiations and the peace."

  • Three Block War is about conducting full scale military action (war), peacekeeping operations and humanitarian aid within the space of three contiguous city blocks.
• 19:15 -- Super strength, what could possibly go wrong?

• 21:30 --

  • Scared of spiders
  • She's scared of clowns. (Coulrophobia  ^[ 1 ]  ) Is that a running gag?
  • Cancer
• 27:00 -- Yes, there are devices which aid in "hacking". It's complex though.
• 28:30 -- Rett syndrome
• 31:00 -- Varying degrees of spying and espionage are better for achieving things. Killing scientists only retards an opponent's programme for a little while.
• 31:30 -- The ghost at the feast.
• 32:30 -- Oh that's terrible graphics.
• 33:15 -- Also terrible graphics.
• 37:30 -- "Girls are genetically predisposed to dislike spiders." hehe
• 43:15 -- Intentionally afflicting his daughter without his knowledge would have been a great way to get him completely on board.

• 53:30 --

  • Pneumonia
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Antibiotics
• 57:45 -- It doesn't seem like a good idea to scan his handicapped child. He'd have to reconstruct her virtual-mind to make it useful at all.

• 1:05:45 --

  • Technological singularity,
  • Recursive self-improvement
  • Intelligence explosion
• Cambridge
• 1:13:45 -- Pointless signaling.

• 1:18:15 -- Siri ?

Footnotes

1. Why the fuck did Wikipedia redirect this article? - [↩]