tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025296711377887240.post8253290394519835259..comments2023-01-18T13:59:53.475-08:00Comments on <center>2001: A Space Odyssey.Info</center>: Discovery (Film Synopsis Part 7)Robert E Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18391581467677241611noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025296711377887240.post-45199640483022388852012-08-25T17:06:34.617-07:002012-08-25T17:06:34.617-07:00An interview with Marvin Minsky about 2001 can be ...An interview with Marvin Minsky about 2001 can be found at:<br /><br />http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/chap2/two1.html<br /><br /><i>I remember sitting with Carl Sagan at the Boston opening of 2001 and thinking that it was the most awesome film I'd ever seen [because of] everything! I especially liked the putting down of the humans. All that boring dialogue and the dumb staff meetings, meetings to "beef up morale"! And after the momentous statement that the monolith must have been deliberately buried, one of the moon astronauts says "Well, how about a little coffee?" I always thought that it was Kubrick's idea that the universe was too majestic for short-sighted people. Of course, HAL stole the show.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025296711377887240.post-53234471029068854732012-08-25T16:53:17.740-07:002012-08-25T16:53:17.740-07:00Discovery also resembles a bone thrown at the star...Discovery also resembles a bone thrown at the stars. For evidently aesthetic reasons, it does no longer carry any fuel tanks - they would bury the slender form. The fuel would be needed to decelerate in the Jupiter system, and it would be a lot of it. Early design of Discovery also included "wings", the heat-disposing radiators of the nuclear engines. These were also dropped as being confusing to the audience.<br /><br />"HAL even goes on to say that he is foolproof and incapable of error."<br /><br />Kubrick, even though consulted by Marvin Minsky about HAL, clearly messed up big regarding this. Intelligence is in a large part fixing up foolish and erroneous behaviour which is due to limited computational resources (time, energy and brainpower) and incomplete information about the real world (we know that even navigation in the kitchen is fraught with errors and accidents of all sorts) More on this in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationalityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com