I think a lot of people here will like Primer if they haven’t seen it. Two engineers accidentally invent a time machine and try to make a startup for it, while making money on the stock exchange and getting into nigh-incomprehensible intertemporal plots. The characters behave as rationally as can be expected given their situation—they take sensible precautions to avoid interfering with the timeline, generate and attempt to falsify hypotheses about what kind of time travel they’re dealing with, and how causality might be affected, and other important things that I don’t want to spoil.
You’ll need a graph and several watches to figure out exactly what’s going on though, which can be a plus or a minus depending on your patience and tolerance for obscurantism
I’m not sure I’d say the characters behave rationally. Indeed the interesting human element is the varied ways in which they react to their creation, which basically shows juvenile emotional response and lack of foresight. They’re very good at planning, plotting, and scheming, but utterly fail at the “rationalists win” part.
EDIT: Still, upvoted because it’s a great rationalist’s movie. You should watch it (and re-watch it until you finally understand it) as it presents a great hypothetical and philosophically interesting what-if. Just not a model to emulate.
I think a lot of people here will like Primer if they haven’t seen it. Two engineers accidentally invent a time machine and try to make a startup for it, while making money on the stock exchange and getting into nigh-incomprehensible intertemporal plots. The characters behave as rationally as can be expected given their situation—they take sensible precautions to avoid interfering with the timeline, generate and attempt to falsify hypotheses about what kind of time travel they’re dealing with, and how causality might be affected, and other important things that I don’t want to spoil.
You’ll need a graph and several watches to figure out exactly what’s going on though, which can be a plus or a minus depending on your patience and tolerance for obscurantism
I’m not sure I’d say the characters behave rationally. Indeed the interesting human element is the varied ways in which they react to their creation, which basically shows juvenile emotional response and lack of foresight. They’re very good at planning, plotting, and scheming, but utterly fail at the “rationalists win” part.
EDIT: Still, upvoted because it’s a great rationalist’s movie. You should watch it (and re-watch it until you finally understand it) as it presents a great hypothetical and philosophically interesting what-if. Just not a model to emulate.