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― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 2 May 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)
two weeks pass...
on _waking life_ as a commarad said :"
One scene in Richard Linklater's "Waking Life" makes a reasonable attempt at introducing the concept of the Singularity, though it focusses more on accelerating progress / evolution than on AI. Transhumanism and volition-based "evolution" are there as well, but it's a fairly oblique approach and you'd probably need some previous experience of the ideas to fully appreciate what the character is saying. Still, it's the first movie I've seen which mentions any of this explicitly.
a transcript of the scene in question; not bad for a two-minute scene:
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte484v/wakinglife/neohumanguy.html
The rest of the site, including an overview of the film:
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte484v/wakinglife.html
"
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 22 May 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)
one month passes...
one month passes...