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armcattoday at 11:00 AM3 repliesview on HN

That movie has aged incredibly well!


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aleccotoday at 11:37 AM

As a story, yes. But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware.

The future seems more like Blindsight [1]: hyper-intelligent, completely unconscious systems outperform, out-manipulate, and out-compete human beings purely through automated efficiency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

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mr_toadtoday at 1:23 PM

> That movie has aged incredibly well!

Except for the titular event not happening!

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account42today at 11:08 AM

Resolution-wise it hasn't due to the extensive use of early CGI.

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