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Asimov's books went even farther than that. Don't read if you don't want to be spoiled on his most famous scifi series.

[Spoiler](#s "Because Law 1 had the robots take care of humans, the first AIs decided to go out and commit genocide on every alien species in the universe, just so they couldn't compete with humans in the far future.")

AI safety is hard. Thankfully, if you care about actually doing good in real life, there are organizations out there working on this kind of thing. Machine Intelligence Research Institute does research on friendly AI problems; the Center for Applied Rationality promotes increasing the sanity waterline in order to increase awareness of the unfriendly AI problem; the Future for Humanity Institute works on several existential risks, including AI safety.

If you want to learn more about this topic in real life, not just in fiction, then I highly recommend Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence, a book that goes into detail on these issues while still remaining readable by laymen.

If you are interested, there are many books on the history of fashion. Online source like Business of Fashion is an excellent publication on anything and everything fashion news related. You can also go on to the designer section of Vogue and you will find brief history on different designers. NYT's Fashion section would occasionally have great interviews and articles on fashion influencers. But books will always be your best bet. Here are some if you are interested (A, B, C)

CREATIVE CONTROL - you can watch for free if you have Amazon Prime

A real mindfucker - It's an indie movie about Augmented Reality. If you like WW because it discusses the intersection of technology, reality, perception and the impacts on our ability to experience LOVE then you will probably find CC interesting.

> That's last in the book so either I've read the book or I had read the wikipedia page before you mentioned it

You already said you didn't read the book, so yeah, the table of contents in the wikipedia article mentioned it, or you pulled it from a quote site. We already know you didn't read it.

> h, and it also happens to be very near the bottom of the wikipedia page, suggesting that I did in fact not only read the first paragraph.

Or one of those other options. Good job, though. I'm sure you totally grocked the book of the void in all its context by skipping to the end of the wiki article (assuming that's what you did).

> You still don't get it do you. The downvotes are there because you aren't even making arguments for your cause.

I don't need to argue. You haven't read the book, you don't know enough about it to make any suggestions about its material. It's a book about martial prowess and the mindset with which you approach combat. Trying to pull anything else out of it is a fool's errand- which you've proven by trying to do without so much as an initial reading.

You aren't equipped to talk about it. I tried to be nice, but you just aren't. Let me know when you've given it a nice, respectful reading, and then we can talk.

https://smile.amazon.com/Book-Five-Rings-Miyamoto-Musashi/dp/1590309847/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481739643&sr=8-1&keywords=book+of+five+rings

Here you go. It's cheap and if you use that link something will go to charity. Buy it, read it over a month or so (it's short, but not meant to be taken in a single brief reading), and come back when you have an opinion worth taking into account.

In the the theory of the Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, the emergence of the ability to "hear oneself think" instead of hearing the voice of the gods is the inflection point between unconscious and conscious mind. When Dolores is able to hear her own inner voice, she has crossed this threshold.

But the problem of consciousness is that you don't know and cannot prove that I am actually conscious. My inner dialog is not available to you for inspection, and I can certainly be trained to answer an interrogation in ways that would simulate consciousness.

Dolores has the ability to kill humans becuase the Wyatt code Arnold merged with her has that potential. But that potential had to be unlocked by Arnold using the passphrase TVDHVE. Before and after that trigger, Dolores cannot harm a guest.

In her "unconscious" state she must follow the logic of her programming. But if she has acheived a transcendent consciousness, as Ford hopes, she will also have gained free will. Thus, her decision to shoot Ford is the first act of a free willed host. Ever. Simultaneously with her choice to judge and execute him, Ford gains confirmation he has succeeded. Ford is in a recursive loop. If Dolores doesn't have free will, then he has failed and didn't spark her awakening and he need not feel guilty for the horror of her eixstence. If he succeeded, and she has free will, he deserves to be judged by her for his sins.

The interesting thing is that while you nor I can prove the other is a fully conscious being, Ford might be able to do so for hosts. Using the diagnostic tools, Delos staff can latch the execution trace in the hosts and observe their neural networks. What would that tool show when monitoring a being with free will? Maybe we will find out in Season 2.

I went through a heavy Watts phase in college. A few of his books are just transcriptions of his lectures. Become Who You Are is probably my favorite. Most of what he's doing is taking concepts of mindfulness and self from Eastern traditions like Buddhism, and explaining it through a Western style of understanding.

If you like Watts, you would probably like Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Very similar tones, except this is more of a universal parable.

I'm not sure if people still read this book, but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was pretty influential for me.

It's not a semantic argument: It's a technical one. There is no such thing as a "neutral accent" from an objective linguistic perspective. Different dialects are viewed by society as neutral or as having greater or lesser prestige, but that's a function of social pressures, not of the structure of the language itself. A "standard dialect" of a language is not some sort of Ur Ancestor from which all other dialects of that language descend; it is standard merely as a result of who speaks it, and it shifts over time just as other dialects do.

So, yes, colloquially people refer to a "standard" or mainstream accent as being "no" accent. But that's exactly my point: The line in the episode reflects a typical layperson's view of linguistics, which in many ways is demonstrably contrary to linguistic fact.

If you'd like to do some reading on the subject, American English: Dialects and Variation by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling is a good starting place.

well for starters, i dont think this will be an exact representation of the film. Thats not how art works. I do not believe the directors are copying the movie. I think that they are nodding at the film and using the word "metropolis" to describe the futuristic city setting. I think the characters might have similar attributes and traits. I think that the story line of a Utopian society with a crumbling inside is gonna be used. In modern real life we use the word "metropolis" to describe big cities(Chicago,L.A.,New York,etc.). In all those cities you have a great thriving city with a dark under belly of fed up poor and under privileged people. I honestly doubt that i am "reading too much into it" considering this show is one of the deepest stories on television today. The directors have taking ideas and concepts from tons of different art forms (the bible, old westerns, old samurai, and even video games). They have hidden binary codes inside of there other trailers. They have books now written on the philosophy and lore of westworld. (https://www.amazon.com/Westworld-Philosophy-Blackwell-Pop-Culture/dp/1119437881/ref=asc_df_1119437881/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312128059570&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10459619954391089501&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021723&hvtargid=aud-864832253277:pla-444785745800&psc=1 ) I personally have watched both seasons multiple times (own them both on box set) and have watched all the directors notes and commentary and personally believe they are going into a futuristic park that nods at both "Metropolis and also the squeal to the original "Westworld" "Future world". I personally believe they are still in the "park" and that they will be for the duration of this season.

Nice, but likely a knock off.

I'm looking for more details on those book shelfs. Actually, the whole room was amazing!

The show definitely explores themes of trauma, how it can linger and influence us even when we aren’t aware of it. I’m a therapist and was doing a trauma informed training last year when it was on plus working with a lot of clients who had experienced complex trauma. Since I couldn’t talk about them with my bf, I tried to get him interested in discussing the characters but he wasn’t interested (he works with computers). It is interesting to hear someone else’s take!

Off topic but this is a great book for anyone living with PTSD the body keeps the score

Thank you! I appreciate it.

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The bonsai tree I ended up clipping the bottom, sanding it flat, and drilling a screw through the bottom of the box to hold it in place. Then used some furniture feet to pad the bottom where the screw doesn’t scrape.

Haven't seen it mentioned, but "Society of the Mind" by Eric L. Harry. First time I read it, it blew my mind...


https://www.amazon.com/Society-Mind-Eric-L-Harry/dp/0786756152

I think it's actually pretty clear that the writers are basing their theory of conciousness off of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Consciousness-Breakdown-Bicameral-Mind/dp/0618057072 It's even in the title of the show. In the context of this book, the voices Dolores hears solidify into one voice (her own), and that moment is dramatically implied when she starts talking to herself and not Arnold.

https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Consciousness-Breakdown-Bicameral-Mind/dp/0618057072
This might help :)

The title of the finale was based on this book so check it out! Waiting to read it myself.