From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 16:22:23 MDT
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:43:51PM -0700, Spike Jones wrote:
> Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> > Greetings from a jetlagged but happy swede in San Francisco...
>
> Anders, I hope your SF group going to see A.I. worked out
> better than ours in the south bay did. Sold out shows there too?
I went at Metereon (sp?) at 11.00 today - fairly full, but not
cumbersomely so. Yesterday I would have fallen asleep even if Spielberg,
Kubrick and the Matrix brothers had directed Eliezer's script for the
Singularity :-)
(As an added delight (?) I got to see the enormous queue outside the
place for people who wanted to participate in the next showing of
Survivor... poor guys)
> I am surprised: evidently more people are thinking about
> A.I. that I had realized, for this movie was in 3 of the 12 theatres
> and was far outselling movies that had actual car chases and
> helicopter crashes. spike
I'll post my views on it in a more specific thread, but just to relate
it to the current parent thread: it takes an interesting view of human
dignity as being based on our uniqueness (or at least the boy does): if
you can be unique in some way, then you have human/AI dignity. I would
rather say uniqueness itself is not as interesting as in what way you
are unique, as well as your capacity of achieving uniqueness.
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