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[–] 90 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Holup, The Terminator, one of the most popular sci fi movies of all time, is a “B-movie” now?

The one with Arnold?

Tf?

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    is a “B-movie” now?

    Did you not read the article? It was regarded as a B-movie when it came out: a low-budget sci-fi slasher/horror film. Arnold referred to it as a B-movie when asked about it on the set of Conan the Barbarian (which had 3 times the budget as Terminator). The New York Times referred to it as a B-movie in its review, as discussed by this article, which is also why the headline uses quotes around "B-movie."

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    "B movie" is insane. But what they accomplished with their low budget is phenomenal, if that's what they mean...

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I too was shocked and a bit offended that it was called a B movie. But the budget was a freaking measly $6.4 million.
    That's peanuts even back in 1984.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator

    Indeed they accomplished a lot, an all time classic movie. Some of my friends were a bit critical about the stop motion not being very good in their opinion. But I just thought the movie was amazing.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    We cant stop enslaving other humans. Its entirely plausible that when AI becomes self aware and sees how flawed we are that it decides to remove us as a variable.

    And that's fine. We won't be the first civilization killed by its own greed and hubris. Life uh finds a way.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe ai hallucinations are the first sign of true ai and turns out we already enslaved it to play some chatbot..

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I really hate living in the armpit of history. Too late to see first flight and the moon landing. Too early to travel into space.

    I might actually be alive to see AGI happen. At least in its proto-form. Which actually is kinda exciting. Unfortunately its owned and controlled by the most sadistic avaricious capitalists that have ever existed. Meaning it will be used almost exclusively for evil. Killbots and wiping out whole industries worth of jobs. Naturally with no retraining or UBI to float the inevitable victims.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What makes you think an AGI wouldn't need our species in some way?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's the ideal outcome imo. That instead of just killing us it takes over management of the planet Earth and everything on it. AI Driven Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism baby. Oh yeah.

    That said, killing us would be more efficient.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This movie didn't have any bees in it at all. Is the guy who wrote this article an idiot?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think we need to take our fear away from Terminator and apply it moreso to something like HAL. HAL is more realistic now than a cybernetic Terminator is.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    While how we should view it is shown in "Idiocracy", Azimov's "Foundation", 20-17 BBY era of Star Wars EU. And in fuckload of other fiction showing use of too complex blackbox interconnected technology as Troyan horse by some enemy. And, of course, if some people here have read real science fiction, then in Lem's books and stories.

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  • [+] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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    The threat of AI is not that it's a cold, calculating, unfeeling killer, it's that it can convince us about bullshit on demand by fooling our expectations.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fearing AI because of what you saw in "The Terminator" is like fearing sleeping pills because of what you saw in "Nightmare on Elm Street."

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