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ddq 50 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Remarks on AI from NZ

Metal Gear Solid 2 makes this point about how "over the past 200 years, a kind of consciousness formed layer by layer in the crucible of the White House" through memetic evolution. The whole conversation was markedly prescient for 2001 but not appreciated at the time.

https://youtu.be/eKl6WjfDqYA

keybored 50 days ago [–]

I don’t think it was “prescient” for 2001 because it was based on already-existing ideas. The same author that inspired The Matrix.

But the “art” of MGS might be the memetic powerhouse of Hideo Kojima as the inventor of everything. A boss to surpass Big Boss himself.

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