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

[Russell Standish]

Colour me impressed! I have some ideas for dramatising some of my
ideas from Theory of Nothing. This looks like an affordable way of
doing that!

On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 08:37:47PM -0400, Jason Resch via extropy-chat wrote:
> I gave Claude Opus a book: Finding Myself and asked that it write a
> daramtization of it, in a screen play of about 15 minutes long, focused on one
> character working through each of the thought experiments in a vivid,
> emotionally compelling way.
> 
> I then took that screen play to another AI service (Utopai) that takes scripts,
> and converts them into shots that can be generated in 4-15 second chunks. It is
> a bit rough around the edges, and it was both expensive, and frustrating when
> the generations did not align with expectations, but after several days I was
> able to stich together enough workable scenes into a fairly nice piece.
> 
> The author of Finding Myself is incredibly happy with the accurate portrayal of
> the thought experiments, and thinks this will bring much more attention to his
> ideas. The following is the result:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSYNvEgF24
> 
> All in, the cost was less than $1,000 to produce this 22 minute video. I think
> Hollywood's days are numbered.
> 
> Jason

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