People give ‘The Day After’ as an example of a movie that motivated nuclear disarmament and it would be good to have something similar for AIXR and I agree and I think there’s something important to learn about that case.
That movie and ‘Threads’ are about the catastrophe *happening*, and about how absolutely terrible that would be. It forces you to put yourself there and that makes a strong emotional impact.
I think this type of intuition pump is the most powerful of them; people get the most motivated to change their lives when they think about their last moments and what they could regret then. Same thing happens when people think of their loved ones dying; they feel motivated to tell them that they love them or protect them.
The end of the world is basically both of those things at once.
Making people put themselves in that scenario is something AIXR comms hasn’t tried much IMO. Only examples I remember are John Sherman once in his podcast and a book, and one tweet from Michael Trazzi.
People give ‘The Day After’ as an example of a movie that motivated nuclear disarmament and it would be good to have something similar for AIXR and I agree and I think there’s something important to learn about that case.
That movie and ‘Threads’ are about the catastrophe *happening*, and about how absolutely terrible that would be. It forces you to put yourself there and that makes a strong emotional impact.
I think this type of intuition pump is the most powerful of them; people get the most motivated to change their lives when they think about their last moments and what they could regret then. Same thing happens when people think of their loved ones dying; they feel motivated to tell them that they love them or protect them.
The end of the world is basically both of those things at once.
Making people put themselves in that scenario is something AIXR comms hasn’t tried much IMO. Only examples I remember are John Sherman once in his podcast and a book, and one tweet from Michael Trazzi.