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Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)

Very Bad Wizards

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Is This Hal 9000?

There's something about the parent scene that is just like in his complete expressionlessness that is almost chilling in a way that some of these other scenes aren't. The idea I think is Hal's testing his intelligence and he's been found wanting either that or he's discovered deception yeah. But he's also nice like he talks about with Dave Bowman's with the sketches on hibernating on hibernated people which we haven't talked about but there are these like other crew members who are hibernating. It seems fake it seems fake especially for the chess game because he says thank you for a most stimulating game or whatever the dialogue is. There's no way it could be stimulating because he

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