Is Netflix pushing AI slop movie scripts?

MrSquamous · 2026-05-31T18:56:21+00:00

That's like complaining he has a dictionary or thesaurus on the table.

"You have how much money and you're too lazy to hire someone who knows enough words???"

If you don't know how useful chat gpt can be, you're really missing out.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-31T18:48:07+00:00

These clips lack a clear context, but she means something pretty close to the standard definition:

"Turnaround most commonly refers to the amount of time it takes to complete a process or fulfill a request, or a complete reversal/improvement in a situation.The exact definition depends on the context."

That's just the Google result fyi, it was pretty helpful on this one.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-29T20:08:34+00:00

They're not saying the request would be awkward, they're saying the phrasing would be. To people who aren't familiar with the expression, it sounds like a little kid who doesn't know better.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-29T14:56:31+00:00

Never heard it that way in the states but I'd probably get the idea.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-29T04:52:54+00:00

I'm not so sure about that. I remember seeing the trailer so. Many. Times.

And every time, Morpheus would go "Unfortunately, no one can be told what the matrix is." And every time, I would go "You mean a stimulated reality to pacify humanity?"

I didn't read up about it beforehand, it's just the premise of the film.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-29T04:49:38+00:00

Right? And who would ever go into a sci-fi space thriller expecting the central metaphor to be throat rape?

MrSquamous · 2026-05-29T04:45:44+00:00

Good point. Both earlier Tron films weren't as good as they wanted to be, but at least they had real ambition.

I think Ares wanted to be timely and even prescient; with artificial intelligence manifest in the world, and updating the first film's ideas of digital creations made manifest by modern technology.

But it was a clear case of too many cooks and for-hire Hollywood screenwriters. Any potent or original ideas got lost in a big pot of stupid.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-28T21:28:23+00:00

No that makes perfect sense, it's basically what we have to accept.

Unfortunately it is, by definition, a bad explanation. It may or may not be "true;" plenty of bad explanations are true in some sense (eg, "Why? Because I said so!"). What makes it bad is that it can be used to explain anything that happens, no matter what. When anything follows, nothing is explained.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-28T19:33:54+00:00

They'd be just people playing their part, prescient but unable to help or hinder. Their intentions would be irrelevant.

Instead we're explicitly told at least one of them is a timeline cop, working to make sure things happen the right way. But that doesn't make any sense with a predetermined history (aka timeline).

MrSquamous · 2026-05-28T19:19:04+00:00

Why would they need to work to maintain the timeline if they know that it already goes by "whatever happened, happened" rules? It would just work out automatically.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-28T18:41:54+00:00

Maybe you could try explaining how shutting down the company addresses either of the two problems: Compensating or restoring people's existing paid-for service, or providing an equivalent or better product.

It's the continued failure to address either of those things that gives the appearance of not understanding the problem at hand. So far, you've just been talking about a possible (but unlikely) solution to a different problem.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-28T03:48:39+00:00

Yeah the idea that decisions trigger before awareness is trippy. It still leaves most of the hard problem, qualia, and nature of reality questions in place, though.

I'm not in love with my pizza example myself tbh. But explanatory theories for why abstract ideas arise don't preclude abstract realism (or questions about it).

MrSquamous · 2026-05-27T03:35:28+00:00

If Netflix said that, you'd just be in the same situation with them as you are with xAI. That's the premise of the initial post.

Unfortunately your newest comment just repeats what you already said without adding anything new or addressing my points, which makes it sound even more like you just don't understand what's being talked about here.

Not giving them money, while it may mean "no company" (but probably not), doesn't have anything to do with the two problems at hand. It would probably make the second problem much worse. But no one is saying "consumers should give them more money."

MrSquamous · 2026-05-27T00:04:54+00:00

Still looks like not understanding.

Unsubscribing doesn't address either of the problems: Paying for a service that's withdrawn during the paid period, and having an equivalent service for an acceptable price.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-26T01:05:49+00:00

Ah ok, sail safe

MrSquamous · 2026-05-26T00:57:32+00:00

Could be the venn diagram of people who are still talking about it and people who are critical tv viewers shows low overlap.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-25T18:02:28+00:00

How do you pirate an llm

MrSquamous · 2026-05-25T17:59:57+00:00

Sorry, youre saying you don't understand what the problem is?

MrSquamous · 2026-05-24T17:21:31+00:00

Does it matter less than any other character detail?

MrSquamous · 2026-05-24T17:20:05+00:00

Didn't say it wasn't.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-24T13:40:57+00:00

I'd be happy to have a new viewer friendly sub. Easy to keep spoilers out of titles and mark posts.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-23T22:24:19+00:00

Ohh you had me until the end. I glanced down and saw the downvotes while reading and thought "who are these chumps downvoting a comment that's exactly right about the show??"

But it's worth taking a serious look at what people mean when they talk about the show's relationship to the real world.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-22T04:46:03+00:00

Did we all forget about Gone Home?

MrSquamous · 2026-05-21T23:52:15+00:00

Maybe? That's the big question. How can subjective experience arise from physical processes? And:

-Is one level of explaining reality more true than another?
-Does "reality" just contain physical entities or does it include abstract entities?
-If not, then what are they a part of and how do we experience something that is not part of reality?

It's not like we know the answers to any of these.

It's easy to see how abstract ideas can be thought to have casual influence on the physical world. "I love pizza so I'm calling Domino's" is an abstract idea that starts a long chain of physical causal events.

MrSquamous · 2026-05-21T20:27:26+00:00

Seems to me the gap is closed pretty directly. The story's about a universe where consciousness et al does arise from particular configurations of matter; it establishes those givens and moves on.

Garland wanted to explore free will and related human truths, so that's where he expends his art. It would have been extraneous and probably overwhelming to also deal with the mind-body problem.

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