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Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) based on Arthur C. Clarke' book. - I'm Sorry, Dave Scene

I'm Sorry, Dave: The Hal 9000 computer refuses to obey an order by simply responding in monotone, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." Are we there now with AI? 2:20 min

youtu.be/Wy4EfdnMZ5g

2001: A Space Odyssey - Hal's Watching 6:51 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFSE4dUJYM8

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - I'm Afraid Scene (4/6) | Movieclips 3:27 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH37JTBpi2A

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"We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled. . ." There is a fundamental flaw in this argument. Wealth is not the accumulation of money and comfort is not the concomitant accumulation of things; this is what a greedy consumer society is. As there is no end to greed and consuming, life becomes meaningless - And yet the argument of the panel is that wealth and comfort should lead to happiness.

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AMEN - ALL PRAISE AND GLORY TO GOD ALMIGHTY!

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AI cant become more powerful than the media already are. Our freedom and our prosperity is always only a function of the collective size of our balls (and our muscles).

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The next exploration is no longer about humans exploring other humans, but about the machine that supports the financialization of consumption, no longer through the production/consumption binary, but through the profitability created by the new physical body of the consumer, who ceases to be a consumer of products and starts "consuming" their own body at the pace of the upgradings inherent in biotechnological and biomechanical cycles, in a constant exponential acceleration of financial logic. More is better, better is progress, progress is evolution, and evolution is unquestionable.

https://iweothers.substack.com/p/circularity-from-the-slave-to-the

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AI is built into the Epic system at the hospital , and the system will be updated this summer .

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“Greed is good!” Gordon Gekko 1987

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