14 Nov 2007

Milk flew out my nose in an exponential arc

Filed under: Future, Gaaaah — Kelly Ramsey @ 8:31 pm

Yes, it’s lame to do 2 posts in a row of point-and-snicker, but brain hurts. Health supplement promoter Ray Kurzweil is making a movie. Part is a documentary, and part is story:

WN: So in the movie’s narrative, Ramona the avatar is the main character?

Kurzweil: It’s a Pinocchio story. She detects a “gray goo” attack, an attack of self-replicating nanobots. The Department of Homeland Security is oblivious to this, and won’t listen to her, so she gets her other avatar friends to work on this. But she breaks some homeland security protocols in the process. She’s arrested — and there’s a discussion about how you can arrest a virtual person. She hires (civil rights attorney) Alan Dershowitz to defend her, and also to establish her rights as a legal person. She feels she’s human enough to have human rights. There’s a whole courtroom scene, and finally the judge says, “OK, I’ll grant your legal rights if you can pass the Turing Test.” She hires Tony Robbins, the motivational speaker, to help her become more human, and the plot goes on from there.

Tony Robbins?

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