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The vehicle was going windy. None of the three occupants seemed to have any doubts about the reliability of the car. Not only had it been amply tested, it was equipped with a state-of-the-art system connected to the network that was updated in real time. An ultra modern, intelligent, ecological, comfortable car, responsive to the wishes of the passengers… More could not be asked for. The wonders of artificial intelligence did not end there. The vehicle gave conversation to its occupants. Gone were the prototypes that executed basic tasks with vocal command. This model, not yet commercialized, was practically the fourth interlocutor. Not only did he have a growing repertoire of funny jokes, raunchy anecdotes, insider information, but he twisted that stuff based on the moods of his three interlocutors, deduced from their facial expressions, scanned without interruption. In short, the system knew a lot, and it kept learning. And it was not difficult for him to retain his attention. The

The full essay, here . Blunt Knives "If you're given a sharp knife , it seems to me better to use it than to blunt its edge to avoid cutting yourself. "The bad news is that if it's not exercised , your fierceness will turn to bitterness , and you will become an intellectual playground bully: the grumpy sysadmin, the forum troll, the hater, the shooter down of new ideas. How do you avoid this fate? Work on ambitious projects. If you succeed, it will bring you a kind of satisfaction that neutralizes bitterness. But you don't need to have succeeded to feel this; merely working on hard projects gives most fierce nerds some feeling of satisfaction . And those it doesn't, it at least keeps busy. "Especially early on, nerds spend so much of their time in ordinary social situations and so little doing real work that they get a lot more evidence of their awkwardness than their power .  "It might seem like it would be a disadvantage to be mistaken about one

I think blockbuster movies serve, primarily, to familiarize the audiences with some ideas which the powerful are fond of. Of course those movies are intended to make money, and shaping mentalities is a way of doubling the revenues on the long term, since you get a population increasingly obedient and imitative. Now I should mention some examples so the idea can be discussed. Regretfully I don't keep a record of my thoughts while watching movies. Zootopia   What I mean is not the common indoctrination inherent to the entertainment: Zootopia , for example, defends the utopia of supressing the biology (prey/predator), and melting all the races and  characters in a unique mold of cute, unagressive people; and that isn't gonna be possible but under the hegemony of one dominant way of life (the American). No; I'm not talking about that kind of indoctrination. I'm speaking here of a specific discourse, very coherent and articulate, put in a dialogue sequenc