<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 8:40 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I gave Claude Opus a book: <a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/BVDB.nsf/item?openform&product=publications&item=zuboff" target="_blank">Finding Myself</a> 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></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That is super impressive!<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>All in, the cost was less than $1,000 to produce this 22 minute video. I think Hollywood's days are numbered.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I think so too,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> and in about a year something like this will probably only cost about $10</span> so the era of actors getting multimillion dollar paychecks is coming to an en<span class="gmail_default" style="">d.</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br><div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSYNvEgF24" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSYNvEgF24</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jason</div></div>
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