gimulnautti,
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Total Recall

They should definitely remake this movie, but instead of dream implantation, all the mindfucks would have been implemented with

Hell.. Might even get Arnold to appear in it!

harri,
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@gimulnautti What, remake perfection?

HistoPol,
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@gimulnautti

Love this movie.

Elmo is working on this kind of stuff (#Neuralink.)

Alas, no reason to change the underlying tech for probability reasons:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65717487

gimulnautti,
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@HistoPol My reasons for changing the undelying tech weren’t actually for probability reasons.

I find the most compelling reason to watch sci-fi is for social commentary.

HistoPol,
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@gimulnautti

What I posted was no criticism of your idea.

"I find the most compelling reason to watch sci-fi is for social commentary."

Agreed.

The growing problem that I have: in my youth, these #SciFi novels were #utopias, galaxies away, challenging thought experiments.

Nowadays, every fortnight or so, we make a giant leap forward towards one or more of these #dystopias.

That not even #SciFi provides a break from reality anymore us hard to bear...

...and tomorrow is #SciFiSaturday.

paninid,
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HistoPol,
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@paninid

i/: Despite the fact that I do like this hive-mind feeling of a human-based, nascent (counter-#Longtermism) #superintelligence, and that I do like the way my feelings get graphically incorporated, I hate to tell you that it us not that simple. There's much more: /i

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110748372372904448

I do disagree with #LogansRun. This is not what's happening. No #euthanasia of the elderly.

Quite the opposite:
The despicable #MuskRat type billionaires are working towards life...
@gimulnautti

Steveg58,
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@HistoPol @paninid @gimulnautti
The current method for committing genocide and involuntary euthanasia is not by overt direct action but by the removal or pricing out of support systems that people need to survive.

HistoPol,
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@Steveg58

Ah, ok, I might begin to see your point.
You are thinking, for example, of the repeated attacks on the #WelfareState, in the #US exemplified by the attempts to slash #SocialSecurity?
Thus, the #Carrousel of #LogansRun would be seen, in retrospect, as a metaphor, as the aforementioned planned cuts to SS by #Republicans would disproportionately affect the elderly and the "prematurely aged," i. e. combat veterans and the disabled?

@paninid @gimulnautti

Steveg58,
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@HistoPol @paninid @gimulnautti
Also involuntary DNR to some groups during the height of Covid. Attempted shutdown of the NHS in the UK. Variable access to vaccines across the world. Denial of access to survival necessary services such as heating or cooling in extreme environments.

HistoPol,
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@Steveg58
"A do-not-resuscitate order (#DNR ), also known as Do Not Attempt Resuscitation ( DNAR ), Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ( DNACPR [3] ), no code [4] [5] or allow natural death, is a medical order,..." ?

@paninid @gimulnautti

Steveg58,
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@HistoPol @paninid @gimulnautti
Sorry? DNR in most of the world is a patient (or patients representative) choice. Applying it involuntarily is restriction of access to life saving services.

HistoPol, (edited )
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@paninid @gimulnautti

(2/2)

...eternal by transferring their brains 🧠 to robots, or even just digitizing it. (No joke!)
At the same time, scientists are making breakthroughs regarding #longevity, one just a week ago.

PatrickoftheG,
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@paninid @HistoPol @gimulnautti Not happy about how true this feels.

HistoPol,
@HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

@PatrickoftheG

Very true. 😔

"Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."

#ReinholdNiebuhr

@paninid @gimulnautti

cynical13,
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@gimulnautti The last remake was 2012. Might want a little more space between remakes. I mean, this isn't a Spider-Man or Batman movie.

gimulnautti,
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@cynical13 Oh, I missed it then!

Looking forward for plot twists incorporating contemporary phenomena there!

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