(Part 2) Top products from r/blackmirror

Absolutely loved the movie, left the theater still with chills down my spine imagining a future with such an artificial intelligence as presented here.

I was also very happily surprised to see at the end credits that the AI advisor to the movie was the professor I've done my AI master's thesis with, he is a really great guy! For those interested, he's a got a great introductory and accessible book on AI and the singularity. If you enjoyed the movie I think you'll enjoy this too.

Good question and I should qualify I’m not a physicist but Dr. Michio Kaku wrote a pretty good book outlining his reasons why that statement is true. The Future of the Mind Great read.

Edit: Name spelling

> The truth is that the singularity could be reached but never realized as long as you don't connect that super-smart AI to anything.

A super-intelligent AI could probably convince a human to let it out of its confinement (Google The AI-Box Experiment for an exploration of this), but even failing that it might think of a way to break free that we can't even conceive of. Even if we literally didn't connect it to anything, that leaves us with no way to interact with it, so what was the point of developing it?

The reason I say human-based AI is less risky is because it would implicitly have human values. It wouldn't kill all humans so that we can't stop it from turning the planet into paperclips. Designing a friendly AI from scratch basically requires us to express human ethics in a way a computer can understand, which is not even close to a solved problem.

Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence is a pretty good exploration of the dangers of AI if you're interested in the subject, but it's a fairly difficult read. Tim Urban's articles on the subject are simpler, if much less in-depth.

For anyone that wants to read an awesome book largely about this topic, I highly recommend "Permutation City" by Greg Egan. It's really good.

Some of the ideas explored with this concept is shit like rich dudes utilizing this tech to basically become immortal and continue to run their corporations after their real world self dies with their digital clones taking over. Basically also as a way to wait until real word robotics and cyborg tech and whatnot is advanced enough to host their consciousness in the real world again.

Also how like digital clones can mentally crack from the realization that the real them is not them etc etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Permutation-City-Novel-Greg-Egan/dp/1597805394#mediaMatrix_secondary_view_div_1562315580921

Clint Mansell's score for San Junipero was a tangible part of its genius. He's done beautiful work on many films with similar emotional landscapes. Here are some of my favorites:

• Requiem for a Dream
  
• The Fountain
  
• Moon
  
  More songs on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Clint-Mansell/e/B000APFO6A/digital/ref=ntt_mp3_rdr?_encoding=UTF8&sn=d
  
  
  

Hijacking top comment to say OP didn't make the design at all, that's why. I did some digging and found the original artist.

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OP IS NOT THE ORIGINAL ARTIST. PLEASE SUPPORT THE ORIGINAL CREATOR HERE. (@ddjvigo on twitter)

If you're interested in buying the original creator's design, please support them by purchasing from an official link, such as HERE (amazon store link, (original artist ddjvigo is the seller here) also note it is just about 5$ LESS EXPENSIVE than OP's link).





DO NOT BUY FROM /u/ricardo_aguilar 's COMMENT'S LINK, THIS IS UNAUTHORIZED AND FRAUDULENT MERCHANDISE. YOU WILL RECEIVE A BAD QUALITY PRODUCT

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If the 2nd amendment read 'The right to bear arms shall not be infringed' you'd be on solid ground. But that's not what it says. If you're interested in what the founders meant by the 2nd, how how the NRA began perverting that meaning in the second half of the 20th century, I recommend this book https://www.amazon.com/The-Second-Amendment-A-Biography/dp/147674744X.

Wise.

I read a book by a guy from that 90s band Semisonic. (this one: https://www.amazon.com/Wanna-Rock-Roll-Star-Machine-Gunned-ebook/dp/B000FC1R46)

The American music industry is (was?) more similar to this than most fans realize. Semisonic's "Closing Time" was ubiquitous for years, yet the band wound up pretty much broke after working their asses off under standard recording industry contracts.

This Is the one I got. I have had zero problems or issues with it. If you want to spend a little extra you could go with this one it’s one of the best starter tables if you want to spend the extra money.

You can buy a region-free bluray on Amazon of Series 1. As for Series 2, you may have to get a bit more... creative.

The Ridge by John Rector

I just finished this book, and it is so f'n good. Like a Black Mirror or Twilight Zone episode in a book. Creepy and suspenseful.

https://www.amazon.com/Ridge-John-Rector/dp/1503943933/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0053Y6M0A/ref=twister_B00DQND5U0

In case your laptop doesn't have it built in.

It kinda reminds me of the score of Portal - No Escape, but I think it's its own thing because you can get the episode's music here.

Such a thing is featured in Slaughtermatic (don't worry, the cops have them & they're the bad guys).

This is actually a book a friend of mine wrote. It's not exactly the same but I did describe it thusly: Ever take peyote, binge-watch Twilight Zone and Tales From the Darkside before having night terrors? This is even better. It's a collection of surreal and nightmarish tales.

https://www.amazon.com/Alectryomancer-Other-Weird-Christopher-Slatsky/dp/0692492828/

I commented above, but if you want to read an interesting book on the subject and goes into the fire rates/kill rates and the training the US Military used to bring those rates up, check out "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society" http://amzn.to/2eIIA76 — there's a pdf of it online if you'd rather go that route. It was a great book IMO.