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

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of Jason Resch via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] A short movie I created (with the help of AI)

 

 

On Thu, Oct 22, 2026, 2:48 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

 

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> > On Behalf Of Jason Resch via extropy-chat
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Others such as Douglas Hofstadter and Douglas Dennett in The Mind’s I.

 

>…Hmm, I do not recall those arguments. I have a copy of that book on my desk, do you remember in which chapter that was mentioned?

 

 

No clue Jason.  It has been over 40 years since I read that book, so my memory might be faulty.  Some elements of the idea are found in those who make the case that we are living in a simulation.  From inside from the point of view of an avatar, we have no idea it is a sim or any way to prove it.  When I say “we,” “I” mean “you” of course.  You, dear reader, are the only actual person.  We are all just actors, avatars, digital versions of Truman Burbank’s fellow humans.  I wasn’t supposed to tell you, but “I” thought you were figuring it out anyway.

 

>>…My fond hope is that you are young, so you can create about a million such videos.

>…Thank you. I'm 42 now….

 

42 years, a child!  A mere toddler.  An embryo in the womb you are sir.  Sperm.

 

OK I will dial that back a notch or two, back to toddler.  At 42, you have a good chance of surviving the coming tech storm, perhaps being the only one among us to reach longevity escape velocity.

 

Here’s a mind blower: Eliezer is 47.  I remember him as a precocious teenager, age 18 when he joined us at a local Foresight event.  He was too young to rent a car, so we went over to the San Jose airport and fetched him.  When he was presenting a paper at that conference, you were enduring 7th grade, as I was looking around for a major career change.    

 

>…Perhaps with the soon-to-come medical breakthroughs we can all have as much time as we desire….

 

May it be so.  Good chance I will need to endure the indignity of cryonics.

 

>…I was thinking there are many great papers and books in philosophy that can all be turned into movies now, things Hollywood would never have touched with a ten foot pole.  Jason 

 

Oh may it be so.  Bless you my son, bless your aaasssssss, make it so sir.

 

spike

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