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Nic's avatar

Since you brought up the movie Her, you might have mentioned that it had a scene where the AI Samantha actually interacts with an AI recreated version of Alan Watts. I always loved that Spike Jonze dropped that in there, as I think Alan Watts is perfect candidate for this treatment.

He was a drunkard and a very flawed person, but no writer or speaker has comforted me more in the darkest moments of my life. I can envision an Alan Watts suicide prevention bot being a net positive project.

I’m very sorry about your mother Paul, I teared up reading that.

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Paul Bloom's avatar

thanks for the kind words, Nic. And yes, agree about Watts.

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