They're Made Out of Meat

niccollsdp · 1.2M views · 2013-03-20 · 6:16

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Overview

A short film adaptation of Terry Bisson's story 'They're Made Out of Meat', in which alien explorers discuss with disbelief that humans are sentient beings made of meat. It won a grand prize at the 2006 SIFF short film festival.

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HN commenters recommend it as a well-made version of the story and quote it jokingly whenever discussions touch on biology versus machine intelligence.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2014–2023

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Literature & writing craft Satire & parody

What people said

pdkl95 · 2014-08 · Recommendation
[VIDEO] The short-film adaptation of this was very well done. The David Lynch-influenced directing style worked well.
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qup · 2023-01 · Joke / meme
Outside tools are not required. We'll selectively breed humans until one can just compute it in...meat[0]. [VIDEO]
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belter · 2022-07 · Reference
We need another "No Silver Bullet" [1] for these modern times of ridiculous hype. Contain your ego and all these Matrices Statistical manipulations you decide to call AI...Somebody please volunteer. "OpenAI estimates that OpenAI Codex (what powers Github’s Copilot) can already complete 37% of coding tasks." And who decides the task is done, complete and works? The Meat does [2]...The Meat and nobody else. [1] "No Silver Bullet": [LINK] [2] "They're Made Out of Meat": [VIDEO]
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