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What if I have recently watched The Lives of Others? (Which everyone in the US should.)
by tclancy 1y ago
What if I have recently watched The Lives of Others?
(Which everyone in the US should.)
- qrios 1y ago‘The Lives of Others’ is an outstanding film. However, it is a reappraisal of East German history and was made seven years after the collapse (the director grew up in West Germany and Western Europe). US-America has looked at the subject of surveillance of its own population and its own (possible) collapse many times and often in a timely manner. "The Conversation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation "Enemy of the State": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film) "The Siege": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siege "In the Heat of the Night": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heat_of_the_Night_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heat_of_the_Night_(film... "Eagle Eye": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Eye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Eye If you ask publicly, ‘What if I've seen XYZ?’ then it's actually already too late.
- zerocrates 1y agoThe collapse being the collapse of the DDR? The Lives of Others must have been made way further beyond that than 7 years. Closer to 20, I'd figure.
- arrowsmith 1y agoTLOO came out in 2006, 16 years after the DDR collapsed. I wondered if GP was thinking of another movie so I asked ChatGPT, which told me: "The German film you’re thinking of is "Good Bye, Lenin!" — released in 2003, exactly seven years after the formal end of the DDR in 1990." (My emphasis.) So much for GPT-5.
- qrios 1y agoRight, I missed a whole decade. (For me 1989, the Mauerfall is the official end of GDR)
- irthomasthomas 1y agoThat's hilarious. Imagine going back two years and showing someone GPT-5? They might think the Pause AI movement had won. It makes you ponder an alternate timeline where the OpenAI brain trust wasn't dismantled Which version did you use, though? GPT-5, GPT-5-Thinking, GPT-5 Pro, GPT-5-Mini, GPT-5 with Thinking (reasoning effort=high) or one of the other 18 options? Did you tell it to think harder? Maybe you are just holding it wrong?
- bambax 1y agoMaking what is essentially a router dispatching queries to the smallest engine susceptible to answer a question was maybe a good optimization from a techical and business pont of view. But branding that router "GPT5" is a huge marketing mistake, because now, every time a smaller model says something stupid (as they often do), it seems that's the best OpenAI has to offer...
- GoblinSlayer 1y agoLinguistically it's an ok association. If you look at it unconsciously, you can find it plausible too, add 7 but in reverse.
- boredhedgehog 1y agoGPT-5 fell into a coma and missed a few critical years.
- nkrisc 1y agoA perfectly grammatical and plausible sentence. Those words all seem quite likely to occur in that sequence. Another LLM success.
- tclancy 1y agoI’m confused. It was a great movie and wildly applicable to what the right wants to do to the US now. What is too late? I mean it may be too late to save us/US but it still bears saying.
- pmarreck 1y agoTrivia about that movie: The spying devices used were authentic and from the era depicted.