Douglas_Knight comments on The Hero With A Thousand Chances - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 July 2009 04:25AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 31 July 2009 06:10:23PM 0 points [-]

Well, you know that there was a quite coherent idea behind that sequence (made clear in the 2001 novel Arthur C. Clarke then wrote), but that when it came to filming it... well, it's Stanley Kubrick.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 03 August 2009 05:37:37PM 0 points [-]

How much evidence do we have that the idea preceded the sequence, rather than being a post-hoc rationalization ("techno-babble")? I'm sure there's a lot of both in the relation between the book and the film.