Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Tuesday 27th March 2007 (promotion called by gold star member michie)
I'm going with the unpopular minority, and agreeing with quantumushroom that this wasn't that great. The end helped it a little, as did the novelty of the lion being the narrator. It did not inspire me, or move me, but only bored me after the initial few seconds of amusement from the lion speaking wore off.
I'm not going to die. I'm going to use scientific advances of 21st century to aid my body and rejuvenate cells, so I don't get old. After a while, I will upload my mind and make 1000 backup copies. So, yes, I'm going to live forever. Unless until then a brick falls on my head or something.
>> ^Truth: I'm not going to die. I'm going to use scientific advances of 21st century to aid my body and rejuvenate cells, so I don't get old. After a while, I will upload my mind and make 1000 backup copies. So, yes, I'm going to live forever. Unless until then a brick falls on my head or something.
Don't forget about the clone machine. Upload the backup copies, into a million fresh bodies, arm them with weapons, take over a small country, then build a space program; Colonize Mars, clone yourself several billion more times, build a fleet of advanced spacecraft, then take over Earth. After that, you have your billions and billions of clones work on a single super mind... an overmind -- then focus your attention on neurobiological and wormhole advancements and send your mind across the universe into other galaxies.
Pretty soon you will rule the galaxy, ascend from your carbon-based bodies and become a god.
"They learned to store knowledge in the structure of space itself and to preserve their thoughts for eternity in frozen lattices of light. They could become creatures of radiation, free at last from the tyranny of matter."
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Fucking great little film.
Bravo
[edit] Wow I had stupid comments 7 months ago too...
The only real answer to any claim of what will or won't happen at death is: "We'll see."
A dehydrated nihilist a-hole speaking with an authority not unlike that of the devout religious.
The only real answer to any claim of what will or won't happen at death is: "We'll see."
You won't see, because you will be dead. There will not be a you to see and be correct, because you will be gone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Acconci ´s (born in 1940)
saliva sounds, which makes listening a bit unbearable to me.
>> ^cheesemoo:
Any idea who the narrator is? His voice is neat.
And the MGM lion is probably already dead..and so are most(?) of the actors in the film fragments..
(pssssst...QM is afraid of death, pass it on)
Wtf? That's relativism of the worst sort. I don't see the attraction at all. I wish I understood why people are drawn to relativism though.
Excuse me whilst I go eat my stem cell sandwich with mustard.
I'm not going to die. I'm going to use scientific advances of 21st century to aid my body and rejuvenate cells, so I don't get old. After a while, I will upload my mind and make 1000 backup copies. So, yes, I'm going to live forever. Unless until then a brick falls on my head or something.
Don't forget about the clone machine. Upload the backup copies, into a million fresh bodies, arm them with weapons, take over a small country, then build a space program; Colonize Mars, clone yourself several billion more times, build a fleet of advanced spacecraft, then take over Earth. After that, you have your billions and billions of clones work on a single super mind... an overmind -- then focus your attention on neurobiological and wormhole advancements and send your mind across the universe into other galaxies.
Pretty soon you will rule the galaxy, ascend from your carbon-based bodies and become a god.
It's all pretty simple and outlined in my book.
- Arthur C Clarke