Any insight this article might have is totally negated for me by the authors reading of 300; I seriously, didn’t realise ostensibly intelligent people could believe that “300 is the story of a bunch of guys who fought to the death defending a way of life that we in the west ultimately take for granted to this day”

Yeah, hooray for our way of life, a society of macho, homophobic child abusers! 300 is a big dumb action movie - with some fairly dubious subtext if you want to analyse it - but ultimately it’s just banal. Actually come to think of it maybe that banality is the way of life we in the west ultimately take for granted. LOL!

Interesting in the light of all the stuff last week about ‘robot rights’. At what level of complexity do we start having moral problems switching off this kind of simulation?

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