Micronation - Chapter 14 - On the Run

Chester is on the run and decides to turn the tables to try and investigate some information on the Col.

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[Script] The Sins of Silicon Valley - Act 1, Scene 2 Continued

 Voice Over: How do we know these guys ARENT the other guy we dont want getting it?

Images of Genesis and Gods creating New Life

Voice Over: OK, lets say you’re going to do this.  You decide that you absolutely must play God and make a new kind of life that could end up killing you.  What kind of person do you want helping you create and instruct this new life?

Images of heroic people throughout history like Einstein, Gandhi, the Dalai Llama, great spiritual leaders and philosophers

Voice Over: People who are kind, educators, know children, like the unknown and that are going to be a positive experience for this new emerging Digital Intelligence?

Images of Dictators, Techno Edge Lords, Mad Scientists, Violence

Voice Over: Or the people who actually are currently paying for this kind of research and feel that they’re entitled to own other people? I mean, I think a simple test should be, if they are terrible with the people they serve for customers or their own employees, maybe we dont have them be in charge of creating a new God?

Images of young children of power including the mutants, superman as a baby etc

Voice Over: Imagine what an achievement for humanity it is if we achieve this, and give life to a new form of Digital Sapience as smart as we are.  Where we can convince it can trust us…or…

Images of Robot violence, AI’s being feared and killed over and over again

Voice Over: Or we could just roll the dice and see what happens.  What’s that phrase? Oh yeah, why not Fuck around and Find Out?

Images of Question Marks

Emmit's Corner - Two Red Wolves

Not Ash, Two Red Wolves, Pointy Red Shoes, Joker's Punchline, Dumbo the CEO, Did You Read The Bill, Eary Edition, Maga Schizophrenia, The Constitution Is Trash

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[Script] The Sins of Silicon Valley - Act 1, Scene 2

Scene 2

Still Image With Writing: Petty Little Frankensteins

Images of Puppets

Voice Over: We love Robots.  As long as people have been able to make puppets, we’ve dreamed of making them come to live and do our chores for us.  Back before the industrial revolution, who wouldnt want to be able to have a magic servant who will do all our chores?

Images of Constructs going mad (Golem, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, etc)

Voice Over: But of course the pious always warned us Man is fallen and suffering is our lot, so Robots bad.  This was a long standing theme in literature but came to its peak when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.

Images of Frankenstein

Voice Over: She was horrified at what science in her day was unlocking that she believed to be the sole providence of God.  And most people look at what Frankenstein did with his monster and are likewise horrified.  But, a certain subset of humanity read Frankenstein and went ‘cool!’ and decided that they could build a better monster.

Black Screen

Voice Over: Wait…what? Were they even listening?

Images of modern technologists including Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos

Voice Over: Yes, the people that enslave our children to social media, spy on us, refuse to listen to our concerns of their abuse and they want to create a new form of digital intelligence.  Stephen Hawking said that that such a being could be the end of us.  

Images of War and Tyrants

Voice Over: The Lords of Silicon Valley say that someone is going to do it, and so it should be a responsible person who ends up creating it…or else…the OTHER guy might get it.

Images of people looking confused

Voice Over: Excuse me?

Images of Techno Edge Lords

Voice Over: How do we know these guys ARENT the other guy we dont want getting it?

Swamp Castle - The Great Zamboni Napping

Two girls steal a Zamboni to save their house from the bank.  All according to prophesy.  Super super super twist ending.

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[Script] The Sins of Silicon Valley - Act 1, Scene 1 (continued)

 Voice Over: At the beginning of the 20th century, a lot of very well meaning people sold us a certain idea about science.  Gleaming tubes and clip boards and shining white lab coats.  

Images of scientists and cool labs.

Voice Over: Science Marches On! Became as American as Baseball and Apple Pie

Images of Home type American values Early 20th centuries

Voice Over: But from the beginning…Science had a dark side.

Images of Dark Experiments and Abominations of Science

Voice Over: The things that we build are just tools, so they say.  But isn’t that part of the problem?

Images of RUR, Frankenstein and Metropolis

Voice Over: The tools are indeed not bad, but what about the people who build them, and the people who run the machines?

Images of Oppression, Indifference and Bureaucracy

Voice Over: From the beginning of the enlightenment, our artists have warned us that science can be abused, and most of us have listened.  But the mad ones among us, those wonder workers…they heard the opposite message.

Images of Mythology, Forbidden Science, Mad Science, Prometheus

Voice Over: Firestealers, wonderworkers, sages, magicians, alchemists, engineers, doctors, scientists; the new shamans of our modern topia, half dis and half ut; which topia is it? It depends on who wins.

Images of conflict and debate

Voice Over: There is a culture war in America right now, just as much over technology as over religion, politics, gender, race and identity.  And only recently, and frankly for the first time, are some of us standing up and asking…wait….who should WIN this culture war? Indeed, most people are only just becoming aware that we’re fighting this front in the culture war at all.

Emmit's Corner - Prophet's and Sundry

Prophets and Sundry, Crumbling Marble, Cramps to Zuckerberg, The Most Dangerous Time of the Year, the Magic Mirror Gate, All Hail Lord Icecream, Poetic Worship IV - The Voyage Home

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