Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Those are all great. Ooh, it also reminds me that I need to show Ex Machina to my brother and our friend we watch movies with pretty regularly. I just showed them Companion the other night, and they quite enjoyed it.

I just saw that Companion is on HBO Max. I will add it to my list.

 

[Mannahnin]

I just saw that Companion is on HBO Max. I will add it to my list.

It's lighter and funnier than Ex Machina, but still dark and good and well-written.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's lighter and funnier than Ex Machina, but still dark and good and well-written.

Given how many dudes are openly horny for AI-generated women -- which feels like a rich vein for thesis papers in the future -- it feels pretty timely as well.

 

[Bohandas]

Are you being hostile for any particular reason? Or did you maybe choose the wrong word?

I'm not being deceptive or misleading. You seem to have a giant excluded middle in between your two extremes.

I apologise for that, I did not mean a deliberate equivocation, I meant a fallacious/accidental equivocation. That was the closest term I could think of at the time. In retrospect 'false equivalence' or 'comparing apples to oranges' would have been a more accurate and less accusatory term.

The point is that doing something as a job is massively different from doing something as a hobby (or even from doing it as a volunteer, which I assume is a large part of the excluded middle you're referring to)

 

[Mannahnin]

I apologise for that, I did not mean a deliberate equivocation, I meant a fallacious/accidental equivocation. That was the closest term I could think of at the time. In retrospect 'false equivalence' or 'comparing apples to oranges' would have been a more accurate and less accusatory term.

The point is that doing something as a job is massively different from doing something as a hobby (or even from doing it as a volunteer, which I assume is a large part of the excluded middle you're referring to)

Thank you! Yeah, IME/IMO there's a big middle zone for most people. I do derive some satisfaction from my job and I know it's healthy for my mood, even though there are things I'd rather be doing at any given moment. If I could choose any job I wanted, it would probably still be one that utilized some of the same skills I exercise for pay right now.