Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "" video.

  1. Very interesting that HR brings up that Moody Blues album and the inner man and AI and DeCasrtes. It reminded me straight away of the cult classic sci-fi movie "Dark Star" written by rookie John Carpenter of"The Thing" fame and Dan O'Bannon of "Alien" fame. This was not a mostly happy truimphpalist sci-fi movie like Star Wars or Star Trek, it was very dark in the thematic overtones and script. Anyway, at the end of the movie one of the astronauts tries to use Cartesian logic to get the AI planet destroyer bomb to defuse and go back into the bomb bay, after it has been activated but because of a malfunction is stuck before it launches. It turns that the astronaut finally convinces the bomb to go back into the bomb bay and think about it, using the aforementioned Cartesian logic about "how do you know what's actuallly real and really actual" so the bomb accepts, but then after a while the bomb, having learned Cartesian doubt, trusts only itself. It is convinced that only it exists, and that its sole purpose in life is to explode, and it does so after quoting Genesis - "Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light." and then BOOM!
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  2. Adding to Johns list of world game changing invetions such as the printing press, steam engine and computer, for me (and I have been a career IT guy) the mail (not email) is one of the most useful and world changing enventions ever, period. I still find it incredible you can put something in the mail and it will get anywhere on the planet mostly delivered. Antarctica, the sub-continent with it's billions, even low earth orbit (the ISS), Still an incedible thing to behold, is it not ?
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