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Stupid/Interesting how conceptually different “photonic life forms” are treated by film makers compared to androids/robots, just because the actors can act human instead of playing a physical machine with gear wheels as brain. Even though the show makers know, I read an interview with Roberto Picardo (no hate for him, he is fun to watch and just wants to work) where he explains that his character is a bit gruff because he is a 900 year old artificial intelligence and doesn’t care much for friendship (as he experienced befriending 30 generations of biological people only for them to die). So an AI existing in a computer (or robot) is a soulless alien, the uncanny other, while an AI existing as a human hologram is like … a quirky Dschinn having fun?
The joi hologram in Blade Runner 2049 also was more “real” than a replicant sex bot, though of course Villeneuves actually had something interesting to explore here.
Anyway, I watched a few reviews and it looks like a flop.
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