• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    9 days ago

    I don’t know, I mean, look at the naming that some tech companies use IRL. They use some pretty silly names. The idea of a company finding a metal that’s sci-fi grade and calling it Unobtanium as a nod to their love of sci-fi isn’t that crazy.

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        7 days ago

        It was the imagination of a character in the movie that was bad, not the makers of the movie. I’m not trying to simp for James Cameron or something lol, that statement sounds like I am.

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          7 days ago

          I know you know this, but, there is no character with an imagination. Cameron made him up. He’s not real. He didn’t imagine anything.

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            7 days ago

            That’s a really weird way to think about it. Yes, obviously they’re all fictional, but you can of course make a character that has a vivid imagination or one that doesn’t.

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              7 days ago

              No, it isn’t. It’s a normal way to think about it. Your way of thinking is how people fall in love with imaginary AI friends.

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                7 days ago

                Lmao no, thinking about what an author/director/etc may have intended for a character’s inner thoughts, motivations, and characteristics to be is not the same as AI psychosis.

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      8 days ago

      I was about to say, we live in a world where Big Brother is about to be fully matured and is unironically named Palantir. I really don’t know what else to say, like the point should be clear.

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      8 days ago

      In real life it would have been named after it’s discoverer or the planet on which it was found. Most sci-fi shows at least name their made up materials Nequadah, Trilithium, Spice, Red Matter, Really hot tea, etc

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      8 days ago

      This seems like the same problem that we have with shuffling music, where a truly random shuffle doesn’t feel random; if you make it less random, it ends up feeling more random. Similarly, making a movie less realistic can make it feel more realistic.