Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85" video.

  1. yep, it makes me laugh to think about his space filling shapes - "i think i can do it in five - oops, i've done it with just two" lol. my favourite though is in debate with william lane craig about creation and god, penrose says at one point, just matter of fact "there may well be a superior being, but i don't see where that gets us" and then, just throwaway "and there's nothing to say this being isn't malicious". a little old man with a bad comb over. love him.
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  2. i'm 66 and it helped me toward my career in special effects, i met one of the designers of the "acid trip" scenes a few years ago. richard yuryuich, and bernard lodge, who pioneered slit scan was a lecturer at kingston poly where i got my degree.
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  3. arthur c clarke said he thought the academy awards people must've thought they had used real apes, as the oscar for best costume and make up went to planet of the apes in 1968. HAL had been programmed to do his best to fulfil the mission, he saw the humans as interfering and that might wreck the mission, unless he'd been programmed to believe that human life had some sanctity above the mission (asimovs laws for instance) he would've let them live, but he would have to be TOLD that, he assumed, as he was "the mission itself" that humans were secondary, just there to fix the AE35 unit and were just as expendable. it begs the question would AI see humans as things they could "switch off" with no moral questions. . apparently the shots of discovery in space took hours to film, one frame at a time as to get the stars as pinpoints each frame took a long exposure, and, as i am an ardent admirer of the film, and i've built 3D computer models of the sets, i noticed in one scene where (pilot) is shadow boxing in the centrifuge the film has been flipped left to right, for an unknown reason. another bit of trivia, there is a piano opposite the breakfast table. . the only problem with AI is if they set out to eradicate humans in one generation. all the questions about AI taking over are a bit redundant really, unless you are planning to live forever - you aren't too worried about your children taking over, AI is much the same, if they have the same amount of intelligence as humans then they ARE human, just a new generation and a new species. the question that really needs addressing is, a machine can be scrapped, a person can't, when is a machine a person, topical what with the "all lives matter" frenzy at the moment.
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