[ExI] kurzweil movie

[Max More]

Spike: Yes, I was a little surprised at not being interviewed for the film.
I presume it's either because I'm not famous enough (most likely) or because
I'm a Singularity skeptic (but didn't the director include others?).

The shots of Ray, Shatner, and me (Natasha was also nearby) were taken at
the reception after Shatner's very entertaining and remarkably well-informed
talk at the Chicago TransVision conference in 2007. (If it's online and you
haven't seen it, I recommend watching it.)

--- Max

2011/4/15 spike <spike66 at att.net>

>  Kurzweil’s movie Transcendent Man was shown at a premier last night at
> the SF Palace of Fine Arts.  I liked it!  Some minor complaints, but overall
> I would rate it very good to low end of the excellent range, certainly worth
> my time.  I saw a lot of familiar faces in the movie from years of hanging
> out with that crowd.  One scene, Kurzweil is conversing with William
> Shatner.  In the background of that scene was a person looking the other way
> whose hair looked like Max More’s.  Right at the end of that scene, Ray and
> Bill look at the camera and Max turns facing the camera, between the other
> two, perhaps 10 feet behind them.  Biggest complaint: why the hell didn’t
> they have interviews with Max?
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>
> There are several people who hang out at Eliezer’s singularity events in
> there, such as Ben Goertzel and others.  Ben is interviewed at length,
> wearing his trademark black and white tiger hat.  What’s up with that?
>
>
>
> Summary of complaints: missing interviews or scenes with major players in
> the field, too much of several minor players, too many references to
> religion and Ray’s father, no mention of cryonics, no sufficient explanation
> of the modern version of uploading.
>
>
>
> Good clean fun however.
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> More commentary later, on my way out.
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> spike
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