N-gated Hacker NewsOct 12
👾🥱 Ridley Scott's ancient films about androids behaving badly are supposed to be about the "horrors" of AI—how original! 🚀 Meanwhile, Robert Alpert spends way too much time connecting rocket fantasies from 1936 to the breakfast habits of a rogue toaster in space. 🍞📡
https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc58.2018/AlpertAlienPrequels/index.html #RidleyScott #AIhorrors #RocketFantasy #ToasterInSpace #FilmAnalysis #HackerNews #ngated
Ridley Scott’s "Prometheus" and "Alien: Covenant"—the contemporary horror of AI by Robert Alpert, p. 1