[ExI] A short movie I created (with the help of AI)

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Jason Resch via extropy-chat



>…I also interpreted the scene discontinuity as brilliantly intentional.  When the young woman and old man switch sides of the hotel counter, it emphasizes the point he was making: he and she were two distinct incarnations of the same meta-being.  Very trippy in a cool way.

 

>…Yes I also felt it added to the theme. It wasn't originally intentional, but leaving it in and not trying to fight it was.

 

>…It leads me to interpret the film as Nora wrestling with her own unconscious thoughts, being an actuary with a brilliant statistical mind, she is trying to make sense out of overcoming the fantastic odds required to be born as the person one side of her believes herself to be.

 

Jason 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nora is a most compelling character.  Age her 30 years, she would be very attractive.

 

Imagine being an actuary, where you get really good at statistics.  It’s your career, your life, your outlook.  Everything reduces to numbers.  However… probability theory is filled with unresolvable paradox. 

 

Your video has a coin toss analogy.  A coin comes up tails.  Before you tossed the coin, what was the probability?  50% they all said in perfect unison.  But… from the point of view of us, after the coin lands, it has a 0% chance of heads, because there you see what happened, tails.

 

Sure, I know the philosophers try to explain around that, but notice how they rely on probability models to establish the validity of probability models.  It always devolves into self-referencing paradox.

 

Regarding the notion of our being one of 200 million possible distinct people who could have been conceived rather than ourself, this is a vast understatement, upon which I will comment in a subsequent post.

 

spike 

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