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Mortal-Region t1_jd47m0x wrote

Don't forget 2001: A Space Odyssey, which features an AI with an ill-considered objective function. Beware, though, it's super-slow-burn -- the idea is that you're supposed to proactively insert yourself into the locales, maybe with a bit of assistance from a mild substance.

Also, The Thirteenth Floor, a simulated-reality story. It's got a lousy tomatometer, but I think it's better than The Matrix, which came out a couple of months earlier. I think a lot of reviewers didn't follow the plot. You've really got to pay attention (or watch it more than once).

Also in the category of simulation stories that got blown away by The Matrix is Existenz. It's directed by Cronenberg, so as you'd expect the tech has a creepy biological quality.

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agonypants t1_jd4fb8o wrote

> 2001: A Space Odyssey, which features an AI with an ill-considered utility function. Beware, though, it's super-slow-burn -- the idea is that you're supposed to proactively insert yourself into the locales, maybe with a bit of assistance from a mild substance.

Can confirm. It's one of my all-time favorite movies and I watched it in 4K under some chemical influence this past weekend and it was AMAZING. What really struck me is how so much of it is shot like a documentary. It's like a documentary about the future, but with a very distinct "NASA in the late 1960s" influence and style. In that way, it serves almost as a documentary about the future AND the past simultaneously.

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internet_czol t1_jd5vqss wrote

Have you read the novelization by Arthur C Clarke? I loved the movie, the novelization is even more documentary-like. A very matter-of-fact style of writing compared to some of the slightly esoteric depictions in the movie.

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Parlicoot t1_jd4kekd wrote

The Thirteenth Floor is a highly underrated film.

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