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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by saltminer on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:25PM (#36716200)
This was part of the plot of "Joan is Awful" (Black Mirror S06E01). I sorta expected some sort of AI proposal but I didn't think it would be so drastic, so soon. Then again, it might just be the tactic of asking for a mountain to get the hill you really want (I'm sure there's a name for this).
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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by Oarch on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:27PM (#36716224)
It's also a key plot point of The Congress (2013), the scanning process of the actress is even in the movie trailer.
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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by robterrell on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:31PM (#36717038)
"Looker" is a Michael Crichton film from 1981 that features actors getting scanned and replaced with cheaper & more compliant CGI equivalents.
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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by ProllyInfamous on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:54PM (#36717208)
This was among the first mainstream major 3D rendering in a motion picture.
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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by nine_zeros on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:27PM (#36716227)
Black mirror surprisingly accurately captured the human consequences of the ultra-capitalistic-tech future.

Still remember the episode where the guy runs on a treadmill to collect points and uses it on porn. Not too different from tech workers running hard everyday and yet, spending all their money on only fans instead of with family.

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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by nine_zeros on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:50PM (#36716541)
It is good that tech money is getting redistributed but it is also important to recognize how stupidly trivialized tech worker life has become.
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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by solardev on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:52PM (#36716561)
Stupidly trivialized how?
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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by pests on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:40PM (#36732661)
Just to be pedantic but in that episode the main character does not use it on porn himself although that is a common use of points in that world. The episode is about his love interest falling for that side of producing income however.
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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by herdymerzbow on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:53PM (#36716577)
Yes, term your thinking of is 'ambit claim'.
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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by User23 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:55PM (#36716597)
> I'm sure there's a name for this

Anchoring[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)

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Re:Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down H... by Freedom2 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @07:30PM (#36717499)
What's interesting is that it's actually a secret technique, as described by asciimov: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36212944
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