| 'Star Trek' franchise an homage to humanist philosophy (2010) https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2010/06/22/8... "Ms. Sackett, with the aid of film clips, said that "The Return of the Archons," from the original series, was a good example of how Mr. Roddenberry employed elements of humanism in his works. In that episode, a planet's population follows, in a zombie-like manner, a mysterious cult-like leader, who allows no divergent viewpoints. The society absorbs individuals into its collective body and the world is free of hate, conflict and crime but creativity, freedom and individualism are stifled. Ms. Sackett said that "Archons," like other Star Trek storylines, warns how people can be controlled by religion. In the end, the viewer discovers the cult leader is actually a computer." "[N]o divergent viewpoints" sounds like Stackoverflow and forums run by software developers in general. The behaviour of "developers" can be extremelly cult-like. Creativity, i.e., new work that is not comprised of a recombination of old work, does not seem compatible with "AI". The later relies on patterns found in old work. |