3 Body Problem 1x07
Added 2024-04-26 12:17:16 +0000 UTCAlmost at the end. =( And RIP Will...
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A couple extra points. About a story with another perspective on sentience, I would highly recommend the Ender's Game books (at least the first four) - not the movie, the movie is fine, but not as sophisticated as the book. Another point - about Ye's joke, you took it in a very good meaning, but there is another interpretation to be deciphered in it. I will try not to spoil, but I think it will help if you think about this: 1. When Ye tells Saul that jokes are necessary for us to survive - what she's trying to say, is that *this* joke is necessary for us to survive. 2. Your interpretation for the "Don't play with god" line is very good and accurate, and related to the second interpretation. 3. Lastly - perhaps the most "on the nose" clue - take a more serious note of the books Dr Ye is looking into right before calling Saul to meet up with him.
Matt (Man of War) Rubin
2024-04-26 23:54:08 +0000 UTC1:08:40 to be fair they called it a "sentient computer" and the baility to create sentience from scratch is kindof a philosophical milestone
HAL
2024-04-26 23:32:16 +0000 UTC1:08:00 if they have the computing power to simulate a scanned human brain in timelapse they might be able to torture him for longer
HAL
2024-04-26 23:30:52 +0000 UTC1:05:00 the psychology is interesting though even if you are going ot die anyways, when it comes down to it every last minute is almost like your entire remaining life
HAL
2024-04-26 23:27:32 +0000 UTCmight also just be a pun on "god does not play dice" "god does not play nice"
HAL
2024-04-26 23:14:00 +0000 UTCyeah, the ants vs us argument is really oversimplifeid for starters ants don't make that kind of argument about us, they don't evne think about that kind of stuff plus there's people protecting animals also ants are not actually that weak like depending on what kind of hypothetical civilisation you look at we'd be much weaker in comparison but just diplomatic implications would probably put us into a lot more power there's no good reason whatsoever to come invade us and well, wiping out a weaker civilisation for the losl is not a diplomatically favorable look towards anyone else who might learn about it
HAL
2024-04-26 23:05:43 +0000 UTCthey just want what he got from their mom, they don't even know he's inherited millions from a friend so he is absolutely trolling htem in turn by leaving them everything their mom left him
HAL
2024-04-26 22:39:08 +0000 UTCthere's some tiny animals that can be frozen and thawed but wit hhumans it has nothign whatseover to do with the futurama idea of go in wake up later or be healed later like anyone remotely involved in it or into it knows its a method for preserving corpses, nothing else now you may hope that some day in the far far future we can bring corpses back to life or at least analyze brains and uplaod them but noones getting frozen unless they are already dead and freezing a corpse obviously does not bring it back to life so really the relevant research is in neurobiology nad microscopy and computing to figure out how we might analyze a brain one day
HAL
2024-04-26 22:26:02 +0000 UTCtime dilation doesn't really get that significant at only 1% c like most of the simple/interesting relativity equations have speed in them as something something v²/c² something something so orders of magnitude wise you're a factor 10000 away from any really big relativisitc effects
HAL
2024-04-26 22:22:23 +0000 UTCYe knows the San Ti are listening to her so she has to convey her meaning in a story, something the San Ti doesn't understand. They don't have stories. In general, it's like Ye's story. The Angels telling her not to play is the San Ti that told her not to respond but she did it anyway. There is a lot of foreshadowing in the whole series. Like the books they show. (of course, this is all my opinion)
Craig Shifflett
2024-04-26 14:40:58 +0000 UTCNope!
Paris Hardy
2024-04-26 14:37:50 +0000 UTCWatching this the second time, it occured to me that the scene with Will and his sister is an allegory for the people on Earth that are worried about their own gain and not the fate of the planet. His sister was more interested in getting the money than his death.
Craig Shifflett
2024-04-26 14:08:11 +0000 UTCDid you notice that the guy funding Auggy (Dennys Porlok) is the same guy Clarence's son was getting funding from? Interesting... 🤔
Matt (Man of War) Rubin
2024-04-26 13:49:53 +0000 UTC
