I’m a human being, god damn it. My life has value.

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  • Many films have had dogs as their protagonist. Fewer have been horror films. Professor of film studies Ben Leonberg’s dog, Indy, has delivered a masterclass in acting in Good Boy (2025). I’ve seen lots of films with dogs as the main character. Trained animals do not achieve what we consider “acting”, however. It’s not within their scope. Indy isn’t an actor either, but the approach with which he has been handled, as the director’s own companion - and filmed such that his natural behaviours lend themselves to the script through clever cinematography, are innovative and gripping. If you watch one horror film this spooky season, I think the best possible one for any dog lover, is Good Boy.



  • LLMs are not AI, it’s an algorithm that finds the most likely next word given a set of training data. We’ve fed it a pile of the shit we say, and it’s feeding us back the shit. It doesn’t plan, think, have opinions, or anything. Now we write stupid shit like this. We are yelling into a canyon and spooking ourselves out with the echoes of the shit we said.

    True AGI might or might not have a self preservation instinct. Our instincts don’t come from the neocortex, and that is the area of the brain a true AGI is most likely to imitate.