Before Skynet and the Matrix, This 50-Year-Old Movie Predicted the Rise of AI

Re:Before Skynet and the Matrix, This 50-Year-Old Movie Pred... by pram on Sunday October 08, 2023 @10:55AM (#37811021)

I found the conclusion closer to the 'class collaboration' ideology of Fascism.

Capital and labor are both dysfunctional in the movie, and this is portrayed in a typical socialist way: The upper classes are libertine, corrupt, inattentive, immoral. Labor is overworked, unrepresented, exploited.

However when labor tries to emancipate themselves from the oppressive and rigid order imposed, chaos ensues. They can't manage themselves correctly! So the ultimate solution is a synthesis. The classes stay in their positions (because this is the natural order) but conditions will be improved and so on

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Re:Before Skynet and the Matrix, This 50-Year-Old Movie Pred... by d0mine on Sunday October 08, 2023 @01:12PM (#37812392)

"natural order" argument reminds me how Aristotle describes a natural slave as "anyone who, while being human, is by nature not his own but of someone else" and further states "he is of someone else when, while being human, he is a piece of property; and a piece of property is a tool for action separate from its owner." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_slavery

"natural" does NOT mean good or that it is worth preserving.

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