They're Made Out of Meat
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it as a well-made version of the story and quote it jokingly whenever discussions touch on biology versus machine intelligence.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2014 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends pdkl95 · 2014-08 · on “They're Made out of Meat”
[this video] The short-film adaptation of this was very well done. The David Lynch-influenced directing style worked well.
Cites tjradcliffe · 2015-06 · on “On Disliking Poetry”
This analysis of poetry is like declaring that the purpose of physics is to build perpetual motion machines and then saying we all dislike physics because it fails in this transcendent purpose. The author trots out uncritically the entire corpus of Romantic twaddle, swathed in sufficient technical language that most poeple will feel too intimidated to challenge it. But twaddle it is. The failure of poetry in the modern world is a result of the rejection of concrete experience as the foundational matter of poems. This has been accompanied by the abandonment of the physical rhythmicities of speech (including rhyme) as the basis of poetic structure. There's nothing transcendent about good poetr
Cites Izkata · 2020-01 · on “If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?”
A universe of what we perceive as AI, reminds me of the short story They're Made out of Meat [0] (and a version on youtube [1]). [0] [LINK] [1] [this video]
Cites c22 · 2020-10 · on “They're Made Out of Meat (1991)”
> I'll grant that it's not going to win any awards... For what it's worth it was one of six nominations for Best Short Story in the 1991 Nebula awards [0] and the Stephen O'Regan film adaptation [1] someone else already posted here won the 2006 Grand Prize at the SIFF Science Fiction Short Film Festival [2]. [0]: [LINK] [1]: [this video] [2]: [LINK]
Cites belter · 2022-07 · on “A new way to predict when software jobs will become automated”
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": [this video]