Reading Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. original novel. He wrote a lot about man’s technological hubris like Westworld & The Andromeda Strain. The unforeseen consequences of science. Near future sci-fi. Would have definitely written a scary novel about AI had he lived longer
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Oct 26, 2026 · 8:13 AM UTC

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If you haven’t already, read his book “Prey”. Not quite AI but not a million miles away. Easy to see why his books usually resulted in decent enough film adaptations
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Surprisingly few GREAT films.
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You should write a book about James Bond fighting dinosaurs
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Haha.
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It's an interesting perspective about how science builds, but I think there is still a training period/ learning in science. You can't just read a paper and make a dinosaur, even if AI comes up with a shopping list
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I read that years before the movie and some of his others, he's great
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There's a warning against the homogenisation of human culture via the internet in that novel which I still find positively chilling.
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Malcolm is definitely acting as a mouthpiece for MC's views in Jurassic Park and it's glorious. It's also worth pointing out, as great as these monologues are to read, the scriptwriter David Koepp did a fantastic job turning this into the iconic dialogue...
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jurassic park book is way darker than movie, hammond is not cute grandpa there, he is the hubris itself and book doesnt save him
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Crichton was basically anti-science. He was a climate change denier and pushed the deep state narrative. He would have fitted right in today.
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Jeff Goldblum nailed the Ian Malcolm role in the film. In Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse makes a distinction between “strength” and “power”. Learned, earned skill is strength. Bought skill is power. Life hack: seek strength, not power. jollycontrarian.com/index.ph…
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