How about a movie thread?

[bobabode]

A classic from my misspent youth, 'Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid'.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Sci-fi thriller about AI, not your usual effects-laden-blow-shit-up stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGzRB4Pnq8

Saw this, based on your prompting. Found it a think piece about AI that's visually and narratively fascinating. Very good.

Though there's a lot of confusion about AI. Intelligence is simply the ability to make decisions. Even a paramecium has some such ability. Computers have ever since the first conditional was programmed.

Of course, some entities are more intelligent than others.

Overlooked but crucial is 'artificial desire.' We need to be careful what we make the toasters want.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Saw this, based on your prompting. Found it a think piece about AI that's visually and narratively fascinating. Very good.

Though there's a lot of confusion about AI. Intelligence is simply the ability to make decisions. Even a paramecium has some such ability. Computers have ever since the first conditional was programmed.

Of course, some entities are more intelligent than others.

Overlooked but crucial is 'artificial desire.' We need to be careful what we make the toasters want.

And without giving too much away, desire, artificial or otherwise, is the essence of the film.

Glad you liked it, DQ. Glad and not at all surprised.

[BlueStreak]

Just watched "Imperium", a pretty good flick about an undercover FBI agent that infiltrated white supremacists and brought down a terrorist plot to detonate a "dirty bomb" in DC. Supposedly based on a real situation.

Recommended.

[Dondilion]

Traitor: DON CHEADLE

A devout Moslem goes deep under cover and has to reconcile broad challenges to his faith.

Once again Don Cheadle shows that he is a good actor.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Traitor: DON CHEADLE

A devout Moslem goes deep under cover and has to reconcile broad challenges to his faith.

Once again Don Cheadle shows that he is a good actor.

Mot the least of which is the tendency of some infidels to insist on using an outdated term for a Muslim.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Mot the least of which is the tendency of some infidels to insist on using an outdated term for a Muslim.

Interesting.

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/524

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Interesting.

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/524

OK, for English-users it's a question of transliteration with no compelling reason to go either way.

With Muslims, many find 'moslem' offensive, due to inadvertent correspondence to an insulting word in Arabic.

It seems obviously disrespectful to keep using a word for a group that members of the group find objectionable. So I'd say it behooves us baby boomers to update our usage.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

OK, for English-users it's a question of transliteration with no compelling reason to go either way.

With Muslims, many find 'moslem' offensive, due to inadvertent correspondence to an insulting word in Arabic.

It seems obviously disrespectful to keep using a word for a group that members of the group find objectionable. So I'd say it behooves us baby boomers to update our usage.

Which was my point.

[nailer]

Follower of Muhammad works for me.