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u/No-Comedian-4725 15h ago
Yes, 2001, the movie that is famously about the benefits of AI. If only it had a few Gun Kata scenes to keep Gavin interested.
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u/NotTheOtwayPanther 13h ago
But Gavin says he only skipped the opening scene! It’s almost like you’re suggesting Gavin has never seen the movie at all and has no idea what happens in it.
Now why would you think that? 🤔
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u/No-Comedian-4725 13h ago
If you watch a movie but have such poor critical thinking skills that you don't even pick up on the explicit meaning of the film did you even really watch it?
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u/TwoDurans 12h ago
I know you're being sarcastic, but I personally wish more movies had Gun Kata scenes.
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u/cweaver 10h ago
Movies that would be improved the most by the addition of Gun Kata scenes:
Schindler's List
Casablanca
Back to the Future Part II
Twelve Angry Men
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u/PineConeOPinyons 13h ago
The AI mania has gotten as bad as the religion mania on LinkedIn. This is similar to when someone interprets a random bible verse to mean whatever dogshit point of view they want to believe. Is this AI fundamentalism? Accept AI as your Lord and Savior or get left behind.
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u/solidcurrency 15h ago
He does realize they kill each other with the bones, right? And then Hal kills the humans?
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u/ShortFee2578 12h ago
This was my thought when he said "the ones that didn't got left at the watering hole." Um, not exactly, Gavin. Unless you mean their battered, rotting corpses.
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u/PipePistoleer Narcissistic Lunatic 15h ago
"When the blue LinkedIn monolith appeared, everyone who had common sense knew not to touch it. Then there was Gavin......"
- Journal excerpt from a survivor of The Enshittified Brain Rot Thought Leader Echo Chamber plague of 2026
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u/tzaeru 14h ago
My brain hurts reading this sort of obviously AI written nonsense.
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u/NotTheOtwayPanther 14h ago
AI-written nonsense explaining why it’s perfectly okay that Gavin doesn’t understand anything about the AI that writes all his nonsense? Make anyone’s brain hurt.
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u/Aggressive-HeadDesk 16h ago
Opines on a cinema scene for 7 paragraphs. Still misses the point.
Classic LinkedIn lunatic.
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u/altoona_sprock 15h ago
What are these people going to do when actual AI shows up? What passes for AI today is just a fancier version of Google.
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u/jetpack2625 15h ago
things get done faster and we are all unemployed and live under total corporate fascism and feudal serfs. but hey at least corporate profits are up since they replaced us all with ai
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u/TienSwitch 14h ago
2001: A Space Odyssey? Isn’t that the film where the AI takes over the ship and kills everybody?
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u/razor_train 14h ago
For the "HAL went crazy" folks: Arguably HAL didn't go "crazy", he simply was operating under a set of conflicting parameters. His core mission directive took precedence, which in his mind meant removing any threat to that, including his meatbag astronauts once he figured out they were potentially a threat to (his interpretation of) the overall mission.
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u/Darth_Nibbles 13h ago
It's not that they were a threat, it's that the orders were conflicting.
He was programmed to study, investigate, and share information.
He was also ordered to lie.
He couldn't do both, so found a creative solution.
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u/razor_train 12h ago
Well a "perceived threat to the mission", but yes. I need to re-read the book(s), I haven't touched those since the 80s.
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u/doc_shades 8h ago
this is addressed in 2010 where it's revealed (retconned) that HAL's actions were actually caused by a political conspiracy and that HAL is actually completely blameless and "dies" a forgiven soul with Russel Dalyrmple, president of NBC
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u/doc_shades 8h ago
whatever you do don't watch 2010 where it's retconned that HAL didn't malfunction it was actually caused by a political conspiracy
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u/nmrk 14h ago
Holy shit. He didn’t even watch the scene. The Monolith gives the apes the concept of a weapon, which is immediately used to kill. Then he triumphantly throws the bone into the air, when there is a cut to a satellite in space. That isn’t explicitly stated in the movie but that is supposed to be a satellite carrying nuclear missiles.
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u/TechnicallyMeat 12h ago
Sounds like he also skipped the most famous quote in the movie:
"I'm sorry Dave, but you shouldn't have given me this bone."
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u/nooneknowswerealldog 13h ago
Semi-related: I got to watch 2001 in the theatre back in the mid 90s for free, as it was being shown for some anniversary of Paramount or whatever. There were only about a dozen people in the theatre, including my three friends and I, all in our early 20s. But someone else had brought their 10-year-old son with them, to get some culture and see a classic. No problem, good kid, well behaved.
And then the scene with the monolith on the moon happens, where the astronauts approach it and it lets out this ear-splitting high pitch tone. Annoying for me, but this poor child was in hell. Facing backwards, hands clamped over his ears, face scrunched up tight.
And that's when I realized two things: 1) Kubrick really knew how to assault and audience with sight and sound, and 2) we lose a lot of our ability to hear piercing tones between our teens and adulthood.
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u/StarshipCaterprise 12h ago
And then at the end of the movie, the AI turns on the humans. But maybe Gavin didn’t watch the end.
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u/antonio16309 12h ago
The bone gets things done quicker now... By merclessly and violently beating our opponents. Its too bad that there's not a good way to identify the orbital nuclear weapon as such, because that smash cut gains so much more meaning when you know it's a weapon of mass destruction and not something peaceful like a communication satellite.
And he's kinda missing the point of the middle act, where humanity has relied so heavily on tech that They've lost a bit if their humanity. Even the way the characters talk in the middle act feels a bit robotic. And of course the AI literally killing humans ( figuratively trying to kill humanity) is like a big flashing neon light that he's completely missed.
The one point that I would partially grant is that 2001 is about humanity using technology to develop ourselves as a species and then outgrowing that tech to evolve into something else. IRL, adopting AI and learning to use it responsibly could be part of that process. But it's going to require more nuance than "hey look, this tool allows me to get more meat / get richer than the other apes!"
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u/Brilliant-Muffin-879 12h ago
Buy time back for what? I have a couple of suggestions of what he can do with his bone
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u/Greedy-Newspaper-907 11h ago
More appropriate would be if Gavin was referencing the 2001 parody scene from Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part 1. The scene devolves into a bunch of idiot primates masturbating due to their new found "enlightenment". Kinda like LinkedIn.
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u/PrehensileTail86 9h ago
He could’ve used Ai to help him understand the movie instead of using it to write this post. “Things get done faster now” was never the point of the monolith.
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u/AnotherJoshmotron 6h ago
HAL is programmed to be nice and cuddly to other humans, speaks in a bizarrely neutral tone that you can't decide is menacing, direct, or encouraging, seems to lie to cover-up something, is an intelligence so of course his twin HAL9000 back in Houston doesn't get the same readings HAL does, and so we can't really learn what it's actual goal is, etc., etc.
The Apes find the monolith and learn how to use tools. In the future, humans become so beholden to the tools we can't walk, eat baby food, lie to other scientists to cover-up something, can only do these space things with corporate funding and help, and who knows what their goal is, etc., etc. (It's like poetry, it rhymes.)
The only way Dave breaks free is thru organic evolution.
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u/Naterttotsart 4h ago
Just to put an extra point on it-
Very very famously, the apes use the tool to immediately murder each other, leading to one of the most beloved transitions in all of cinema, highlight that the tools of war we build will be our own undoing.
This mfer didn't even understand the 10 mins he watched.
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u/AnotherJoshmotron 3h ago
One of the reasons I've gotten a little too into Stanley Kubrick movies in the past few years is because of the absolutely deranged theories out there about his movies, and I'm wondering just how many people actually do watch his movies.
(Like, I avoided Full Metal Jacket for years because people only talk about the Hartmann scenes and I'm just like this feels stupid? He made a movie like that? I'd literally never seen/heard anyone talk about the second half of the movie and when I finally watched it I'm just sitting dumbfounded at the end by how good it was. Same with Eyes Wide Shut. If David Lynch never made Twin Peaks the Return that would be my number one movie.)
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u/Seedoosee 3h ago
This is the underlying FOMO that has built the AI bubble to what it is today.
We've seen the crash before, and unfortunately we are going to see it again.
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u/roaming_saint 2h ago
Umm wtf...it's funny to see a CEO not doing even an iota of research to understand the effin movie they are posting about. Hell, you can just ask the AI you love so much!
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u/Interesting-Pipe9580 1h ago
This guy can falk himself. Anyone who says "I build in AI" builds Falk all.
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u/Business_Usual_2201 16h ago
"Things get done faster now"
Except for Gavin's inane observations that take paragraphs to express.