Except that it isn’t awful. It’s not great either, but it is good and interesting.
The emphasis on the emulation being approximate and the widespread (but not universal) acceptance that the mind in the machine did not have the same identity as the man who had died showed more insight into what this tech will look like was insightful.
The swarms of nanobots were presented very well. I find it incredibly pleasurable and I think educational to see things like that depicted in a movie. It is one thing to read about swarms another to see them.
What is described as “magic” by detractors is partially the difference between a movie and a PhD thesis, and probably a pretty accurate version of how these things would actually look to people seeing them. It is not the job of a movie to use its scarce 120 minutes to provide a technical explanation for HOW the technology works. There was nothing technologically presented here that went beyond the hypothetical bounds of how these things would play out IF an emulation could be uploaded AND IF the emulation had access to sufficient resources in order to be self-modifying.
Why would they build in a desert town rather than a city? How is it not obvious that if you need acres of solar PV that you prefer a scantily occupied desert? How is it not obvious that being able to do a significant part of your facility development without 100,000 nosey neighbors wondering what the hell is going on? The choice of location struck me as obviously sensible.
Except that it isn’t awful. It’s not great either, but it is good and interesting.
The emphasis on the emulation being approximate and the widespread (but not universal) acceptance that the mind in the machine did not have the same identity as the man who had died showed more insight into what this tech will look like was insightful.
The swarms of nanobots were presented very well. I find it incredibly pleasurable and I think educational to see things like that depicted in a movie. It is one thing to read about swarms another to see them.
What is described as “magic” by detractors is partially the difference between a movie and a PhD thesis, and probably a pretty accurate version of how these things would actually look to people seeing them. It is not the job of a movie to use its scarce 120 minutes to provide a technical explanation for HOW the technology works. There was nothing technologically presented here that went beyond the hypothetical bounds of how these things would play out IF an emulation could be uploaded AND IF the emulation had access to sufficient resources in order to be self-modifying.
Why would they build in a desert town rather than a city? How is it not obvious that if you need acres of solar PV that you prefer a scantily occupied desert? How is it not obvious that being able to do a significant part of your facility development without 100,000 nosey neighbors wondering what the hell is going on? The choice of location struck me as obviously sensible.
Etc.