[comment_ran]

After watching his speech, the first thing that came to my mind is one of the speeches that was given by James T. Kirk, which I had no idea which episode it was in, but I do remember the core meaning of that speech. So I use chatGPT to actually help me to find it by just single one question. And it works! And here's the thing I want to share with the the audiuence.

"They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings, but he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this, but I'm not because Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this, but I must point out that the possibilities - the potential for knowledge and advancement - is equally great. Risk! Risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote?"

- James T. Kirk Return to Tomorrow (1968)

[moritonal]

Isn't that pretty ironic, given the speech leads to the spherical intelligences to take him for a ride, manipulate and trick him, and almost kill him and four of his men?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Tomorrow?wprov=sfla1

[JamilD]

How is that ironic? Saying "risk is our business" doesn't imply you'll be successful. It implies the risk is worth it, and you acknowledge the possibility of negative and dangerous outcomes.

[serf]

no, because risk and danger is an expected outcome of what he said.

a weak situational irony would be that the crew reluctantly agrees to take on the risks of exploration, but then every single encounter they have from then on is peaceful, contemplative, and non-eventful.

a weak character irony could be that Kirk gets the crew on-board with his gung-ho antics and thirst for the unknown, they all agree -- and then it's discovered that Kirk is actually a huge wimp that was really just putting on a front because he never thought the crew would want to continue after his descriptions of danger.

[jjeaff]

Kirk gave his crew a vote or a choice. I don't recall getting my ballot about whether we should launch chatgpt.

[nullc]

https://viruscomix.com/page588.html