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Ah, didn't know this either. Still, I think even in the best case, no way the Hobbit can be stretched to 3 movies while staying true to the text. It would be 2/3 a different new story. Like say Cumberbatch version of Sherlock vs. Jeremy Brett
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New Line fucked Jackson over on backend profit sharing for LoTR. Classic movie industry mob accounting where they made the profit disappear on paper. He fought them with lawyers for years and refused to sign on to Hobbit as leverage. So he had way too little time to prep.
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I still think LIGO is fundamentally a different sort of civ boundary than the set I'm sorta constructing here, but no question it's an equally demanding one... perhaps distinction is "surface area" of outcome.
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You need the best lasers, the best squeezed light, the best vibrational isolation along about 17 zillion axes, the best simulations and modelling, the best large vacuum, the best [etc etc etc]. Decathlon is a monofocus by comparison...
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With apologies to A. N. Whitehead, Civilization advances by pushing the limit of the number of important operations which we can perform while actively thinking about them.
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Jackson etc represent a sort of hyper-Whitehead mode of advancement. The highest bandwidth (volume x velocity x variety) unautomated thinking you can do on top of the most mature automation available Raising the ceiling, as opposed to the floor or a single pointy spire
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V-V-V was a phrase used to describe big data. Here I’m using it to characterize hypercomplexity Classic complexity: simple rules lead to complex behavior Hypercomplexity: hold my beer Complex rules (showrunner bible, carrier operations manuals) lead to hypercomplex behavior
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Good point. I think they pulled it off because each book of HP except the last is 80% isolated side quest, 20% Voldemort battle. The school-year scaffolding helps that.
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the glaring counterexample being Harry Potter
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A system is merely complex if you can only imagine a James Gleick book about it A system is pseudo-complex or not-even-a-system if you can only imagine a Malcom Gladwell book about it
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