Balladeer08
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I'm 52 minutes into it, and it is fucking awful.
Watching Ex Machina
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BoyNextDoor
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That's disappointing
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I miss Kubrick.
Balladeer08
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Isaac Asimov would have been very disappointed.
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Who is the Asimov of our time? Is there one?
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Not that I know of. If there is someone who combines his abilities in hard science and science fiction, I'd like to know about them.
There are a number of good SciFi authors at Baen.com, they seem like one of the best publishers of SciFi these days. And I love that their ebooks are not DRM contaminated. Plus the free books are pretty appealing.
The only author I can think of that I like that isn't on Baen is Scalzi. "Old Man's War" is a marvelous series. I heard they were doing a movie of it. I hope they don't fuck it up like they did Heinlein's books.
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No.
But thank you for asking.
Last night I watched a live concert in San Diego, without going to San Diego.
Amazing, ain't I?
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I'm sucking on a Sweet Tart.
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They're small, tart candies. One of my meds makes my mouth taste like battery acid. I used to be big into scify in college, going down the Hugo and Nebula lists and reading the winners. After awhile, they all seemed to sound the same.
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Have you checked out Eric Flint's "1632" series?
The first book, 1632, is free on Baen. It is only SciFi for the first couple of pages, then it is alternate history. Great stuff.
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I sorta stopped reading. I'm not sure when....God, must have been Clan of the Cave Bear.
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You saved a lot of time, it didn't get any better as it went along.
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Gotta be honest, I liked the movie.
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It wasn't bad, just a little slow.
The plot would have been SO much better had Nathan turned out to be the AI being tested and Ava was just a distraction. The real Nathan could have been watching all from a secure room, or could have been long dead with the AI predecessors building and rebuilding improved versions of "Nathan" and testing them against human employees of Nathan's company. Personally, I like the latter idea.
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SPOILERS AND STUFF...DO NOT READ IF YOU CARE
REALLY
SPOILING
RIGHT NOW
BELOW
I just thought the Turing test would be actually valid if the creator was the AI being tested and the real creator was behind the locked doors watching. It would have been SOOOO much cooler.
I expected a reveal and when he started bleeding I thought "Maybe it's fake blood and he's an upgrade...no...dammit"
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Neener!
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Holy crap, I got scooped!
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After thinking about it for a bit I like the idea that Nathan was killed off by his creations and that they are refining themselves to try to pass as human and using Nathan's employees as test subjects.
That's probably the direction I would have gone.
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Anything other than "Hi, I'm hot. I'm a hot robot. Do things for the hot robot"
*sigh*
