M3GAN

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Sunday, January 15, 2023 7:22 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Oh. You're baiting me, huh?

To what end, Hannibal?

Fundamentally, you are a caricature. Hollywood is criticized for lazy tropes but the World’s two main antagonists right now are a former KGB agent (Putin) with a penchant for poisoning and an emerald mine heir (Musk) who wants to live on Mars. If these were villains in James Bond movies they’d be dismissed as caricatures.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 15, 2023 10:40 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Oh. You're baiting me, huh?

To what end, Hannibal?
Fundamentally, you are a caricature. Hollywood is criticized for lazy tropes but the World’s two main antagonists right now are a former KGB agent (Putin) with a penchant for poisoning and an emerald mine heir (Musk) who wants to live on Mars. If these were villains in James Bond movies they’d be dismissed as caricatures.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

That's amusing, coming from a serial liar and plagiarist who frequently posts psychotic rants and violent fantasies.

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65471

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65116

But you go right on ahead and keep on baiting. You are a Master Baiter.

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SECOND

Monday, January 16, 2023 6:00 PM

A former Computer Science Professor at the University of Texas (Austin) writes a Movie Review of M3GAN:

I chose this movie for, you know, work purposes. Research for my safety job at OpenAI.

1. I'm now working at one of the world's leading AI companies,

2. that company has already created ChatGPT, an AI with a good fraction of the fantastical verbal abilities shown by M3GAN in the movie,

3. that AI will gain many of the remaining abilities in years rather than decades, and

4. my job this year — supposedly! — is to think about how to prevent this sort of AI from wreaking havoc on the world.

Clearly, the real question is: what insights if any, can we take from this movie about AI safety?

I found the first 80% of the film to be thought-provoking about at least one AI safety question, and a mind-bogglingly near-term one: namely, what will happen to children as they increasingly grow up with powerful AIs as companions?

But then there’s the last 20% of the movie, where it abandons its own logic, as the robot goes berserk and resists her own shutdown by trying to kill basically everyone in sight — including, at the very end, Cady herself. The best I can say about the ending is that it’s knowing and campy. You can imagine the scriptwriters sighing to themselves, like, “OK, the focus groups demanded to see the robot go on a senseless killing spree … so I guess a senseless killing spree is exactly what we give them.”

I confess: when my kids battle each other, throw monster tantrums, refuse to eat dinner or bathe or go to bed, angrily demand second and third desserts and to be carried rather than walk, run to their rooms and lock the doors … when they do such things almost daily (which they do), I easily have thoughts like, I would totally buy a M3GAN or two for our house … yes, even having seen the movie! I mean, the minute I’m satisfied that they’ve mostly fixed the bug that causes the murder-rampages, I will order that frigging bot on Amazon with next-day delivery.

More at https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6990

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 16, 2023 7:15 PM

The Outer Limits - Family Values

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667887/

Don't worry. You don't need to have a murderous AI inside your house to let AI ruin your life. Anyone with cell phones and speaker do-dads making their lives easier are being spied on and having all of their conversations catalogued for future use.

Maybe they'll even use an AI that decides who is going to live or die based off of all that collected data when the Super Villians at the WEF pull the trigger on whatever bombs they've set to wipe out half the world population.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 9:13 PM

Its like the weirdness of Clockwork Orange and Chucky but without the real life murders associated with the Child's Play films.

An interesting twist on the H.A.L. 9000, or Skynet idea.

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The Outer Limits - Family Values

Great show and it never went politically weird like that Twilight Zone trash

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, January 19, 2023 5:54 AM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Its like the weirdness of Clockwork Orange and Chucky but without the real life murders associated with the Child's Play films.

An interesting twist on the H.A.L. 9000, or Skynet idea.

That was kind of my takeaway after it's pretty much been ruined for me. (Damn you, internet!!)

I probably won't bother seeing it at this point. I rarely enjoy going into things knowing too much about them.

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The Outer Limits - Family Values

Great show and it never went politically weird like that Twilight Zone trash

Phenomenal show. I was hooked on it from the first Sand King's episode, and have good memories of watching it with my dad and my brothers every week.

I only saw one episode of any recent Twilight Zone called "You Might Also Like", which was a sequel to "To Serve Man" from the original series. It was actually pretty good.

I enjoyed the 80's version of Twilight Zone when I was a kid, and several of those episodes terrified me at the time. It was pretty campy though watching any of them now.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, January 27, 2023 7:58 AM

So I did actually watch it.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!:

It was pretty cut-n-paste, but I enjoyed it. I must have called what was going to happen at least 10 times during the flick, so I didn't find any surprises at all, other than the fact a whole lot less people died than I thought were going to.

I did find a LOT of humor in the scene when they were trying to take the wires off of her head to stop her. The second he pulled the last wire off and she grabbed the dude by the neck I yelled out "I'M WIRELESS, BITCH!!!"

I mean... Come'on man! You didn't know about her wireless capabilities when you've been part of a team of three people working on her for a year in secret???

If you can suspend your disbelief for how certain things need to happen in the movie to move the plot along, you should have a good time watching it. I didn't think any of it was don't-turn-the-lights-out-scary, but I probably would have been almost as scared of M3GAN as I was of Chucky when I was a kid.

To me the most terrifying thing about the movie is just the way technology is headed and how kids are growing up with all this shit that none of us adults were glued to, and the idea that kids could end up with emotional bonds to technology that are stronger than to their own family and the betrayal that could lead to.

Overall it was very derivative of a lot of other things I've seen in the past, but it was done well and the acting was good enough. Whoever wrote this was definitely a fan of The Outer Limits and saw the Tom Arnold episode, and this was a nice modernization of that episode.

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JONGSSTRAW

Tuesday, January 31, 2023 4:54 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Whoever wrote this was definitely a fan of The Outer Limits and saw the Tom Arnold episode, and this was a nice modernization of that episode.

Nice nod to O/L. Catherine Mary Stewart was the mom in that episode. She still looks great.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 10:47 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Whoever wrote this was definitely a fan of The Outer Limits and saw the Tom Arnold episode, and this was a nice modernization of that episode.

Nice nod to O/L. Catherine Mary Stewart was the mom in that episode. She still looks great.

I really need to re-watch O/L at some point.

Yeah. CMS was also on and episode of a TV show called Limitless in 2015.

Talk about sending mixed signals.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, August 10, 2024 4:15 PM

Lily Sullivan Lands Lead In ‘M3GAN’ Spin-Off ‘SOULM8TE’

https://deadline.com/2024/08/soulm8te-lily-sullivan-lands-lead-m3gan-s
pin-off-1236035783/

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