Something to be aware of is that, as with the novel Zendegi (which had the “benign superintelligence bootstrap project” and “overpowering falsehood dot com”), there are likely to be some specific allusions to transhumanist communities, although the visual media supports more allusive mechanisms based on sounds and appearances and emotional/social gestalts. The allusions in Zendegi were quite ungenerous. I’m not sure what kind of critical or positive environment would be good in terms of their expected positive or negative world outcomes, but I imagine that being able to respond to them could be important for the organization and for people.
Off the top of my head I can see stuff just in the trailer and brief summary.
The protagonist’s name is “Will Caster” which resonates a bit with the way futurists semi-often give themselves names that can function as priming/identity hacks like Max More, Will Newsome, FM-2030, etc.
There will almost certainly be scenes that try to replicate the vibe of a Singularity Summit. The trailer has some “guy with big wavy hair standing on a stage speaking to a packed audience” visuals but I don’t know how much other stuff might come through.
The uploadee’s love interest will be played by Rebecca Hall who reminded me a bit of Julia Galef.
I wonder if memes pairing an image from the movie and an image from RL with a caption would tend to be “good” or “bad”?
In-jokes are probably things most people will miss or be indifferent to, so fixating on them may be counterproductive. Being forced to give a serious response to satire is usually a losing conversation, because it looks petty, humorless, and negative.
The parallels you suggest (‘this movie features a person with a funny name, features a woman with long brown hair, and features an on-stage speech’) don’t sound especially telling or nonrandom to me, though. We’ll have to wait and see.
Something to be aware of is that, as with the novel Zendegi (which had the “benign superintelligence bootstrap project” and “overpowering falsehood dot com”), there are likely to be some specific allusions to transhumanist communities, although the visual media supports more allusive mechanisms based on sounds and appearances and emotional/social gestalts. The allusions in Zendegi were quite ungenerous. I’m not sure what kind of critical or positive environment would be good in terms of their expected positive or negative world outcomes, but I imagine that being able to respond to them could be important for the organization and for people.
Off the top of my head I can see stuff just in the trailer and brief summary.
The protagonist’s name is “Will Caster” which resonates a bit with the way futurists semi-often give themselves names that can function as priming/identity hacks like Max More, Will Newsome, FM-2030, etc.
There will almost certainly be scenes that try to replicate the vibe of a Singularity Summit. The trailer has some “guy with big wavy hair standing on a stage speaking to a packed audience” visuals but I don’t know how much other stuff might come through.
The uploadee’s love interest will be played by Rebecca Hall who reminded me a bit of Julia Galef.
I wonder if memes pairing an image from the movie and an image from RL with a caption would tend to be “good” or “bad”?
In-jokes are probably things most people will miss or be indifferent to, so fixating on them may be counterproductive. Being forced to give a serious response to satire is usually a losing conversation, because it looks petty, humorless, and negative.
The parallels you suggest (‘this movie features a person with a funny name, features a woman with long brown hair, and features an on-stage speech’) don’t sound especially telling or nonrandom to me, though. We’ll have to wait and see.
The guy talking on a stage is probably much more TED (and, to me, reminescent of the movie Sneakers), than any domain-specific conference.