Banff Mountain Film Festival Films Online for Free
List curated by Lianne Caron
RJ Ripper
(2018, 20 min)
Kids and bikes; wherever you are in the world, they go together. The chaotic streets of
Kathmandu may not seem like a typical breeding ground for world-class mountain bikers, but
then again nothing is typical about Rajesh (RJ) Magar. Since learning to ride on a beat-up
clunker, to becoming the four-time National Champion at age 21, RJ’s story is one of boundless
childhood dreaming and unstoppable determination, forged from junkyard scraps and tested
on the rugged trails of the mighty Himalaya.
https://vimeo.com/275506930 BAWLI BOOCH - Downhill Biking India
(2017, 5 min)
4Play is India’s first adventure film company. A fun short film with a catchy song that will make
you smile. Downhill Mountain Biking in Manali (India), Himalayan cultural nuances and a
catchy Bollywood song that will make your foot tap and keep your eyes glued to the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvExzRrB9Fg Speak To Me Softly
(2019, 6 min)
Experience fear and emotion alongside climber Jenny Abegg as she ascends Moonlight
Buttress while fighting the self-criticism and doubt from that little voice we all have in the back
of our heads.
https://rockandice.com/videos/climbing/speak-to-me-softly/?cn-reloaded=1 Life of Pie | Pizza and Bikes Can Fix Anything
(2019, 11 min)
In 2002, mountain bikers and entrepreneurs Jen Zeuner and Anne Keller moved to Fruita,
Colorado, in search of cheap rent, world-class single track, and free time to ride. Over 15 years
later, the two unconventional women have helped reshape one of the state’s most
conservative towns, uniting the community through advocacy, inclusivity, and damn good
pizza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7yg2PO07u8 Loved By All: The Story of Apa Sherpa
(2018, 14 min)
Every spring the summit of Mount Everest drews people from around the world. But in its
shadow live the Sherpa, a resilient, religious people, who, despite the riches surrounding the
highest peak on earth, are still quite poor and uneducated. A child of the Khumbu, Apa Sherpa
climbed Everest 21 times. Pulled away at the age of 12 to work as a high altitude porter, like so
many others, he would leave his family for months, risking his life on the mountain. Through
his work at the Apa Sherpa Foundation, he aims to create a different future for his people.
https://vimeo.com/270499256 Curated by Lianne Caron
Shepherdess of The Glaciers
(2016, 74 min)
A beautiful cultural film that will sweep you away to an exotic far away location. Way up in
Ladakh—at 16,500 feet, somewhere in the Gya-Miru Valley—lives a shepherdess with a flock of
250 sheep and pashmina goats on a huge deserted rock-strewn mountain. They are her only
companions, except for the troubling presence of wolves and a snow leopard; her only link
with the outside world is a little transistor...
https://vimeo.com/channels/lesfilmsdeladecouverte/147091400 Artifishal | The Fight to Save Wild Salmon
(2019, 80 min)
Artifishal is a film about people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the
environment that supports them. It explores wild salmon’s slide toward extinction, threats
posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdNJ0JAwT7I The Last Honey Hunter
(2017, 36 min)
In the steep mountain jungles of Nepal’s Hongu river valley, members of the isolated Kulung
culture have risked their lives for generations scaling dangerous cliffs to collect wild and
toxic honey. Deep and dark, the film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams,
and woodsmoke to share the story of the leader of the harvest and his final journey.
https://vimeo.com/201695311 The Frozen Road
(2018, 25 min)
Self-shot and edited whilst cycling around the world, this short film charts my winter journey
into the Canadian Arctic as I completed my bike ride up the American continent. Compelled by
Jack London’s assertion, that ‘any man who is a man can travel alone’, I sought an adventure of
perfect solitude. Yet, as I came to realise, the harsh truths of travelling in such a formidable
environment were a long way from the romantic images I’d held of this land. The Frozen Road
is an honest reflection on my solo trip; of the wonder, terror and frustration I experienced when
riding through the unforgiving emptiness of one of the world's 'last great wildernesses'.
https://vimeo.com/252863313 Blood Road
(2017, 92 min)
Rebecca Rusch’s search for connection. In this award-winning film, Rebecca Rusche cycles
1,930km along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through the jungles of Vietnam. The goal is to reach the
site where her father, a US Air Force pilot, was shot down in Laos more than 40 years ago.
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/films/blood-road Curated by Lianne Caron
Billder
(2018, 6 min)
Bill McLane is a trail builder. What started as a hobby between forest firefighting seasons
became a career which has helped shape the mountain bike scene on Vancouver Island. Billder
takes a closer look at the craft and dedication behind the trails we sometimes take for granted.
It shows that when people pursue their passion, we're all better for it
https://vimeo.com/378218839 Up To Speed
(2018, 20 min)
Some climbers perceive speed climbing as a fringe activity, but its inclusion in the 2020
Olympics means it’s now being taken seriously. Film-maker Zachary Barr takes an in-depth
look into the sport.
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/up-to-speed-reel-rock-s05-e01 Okpilik - Inuit Nunangat Taimaannganit
(2019, 4 min)
Mary Kudlak talks about fishing in Okpilik lake near Ulukhaktok as part of the Inuit
Nunangat Taimannganit video project.
https://www.itk.ca/inuit-nunangat-taimannganit/video_archive/okpilik/ Dark Peak Fell Runners
(2019, 17 min)
The Dark Peak Fell Runners base themselves in Sheffield, but their playground is the Peak
District National Park where they weave tracks through the fields, peat bogs and rocky
outcrops to create a tapestry of eccentricity, endeavour and endurance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwTp28jbTP8
Chasing a Trace
(2019, 21 min)
This is a love story between a badass woman scientist and one of the most elusive wild
animals on earth set in the snowy high mountains of Western Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQN16cJ4mLk Climb Your Dreams
(2019, 2 min)
The rush of life in the city inspires a dream for an escape. The nature of reality is questioned
by the contrast of what we do for a living.
https://vimeo.com/362028659 Curated by Lianne Caron
Full Moon
(2019, 6 min)
Closing lifts and the setting sun mark the end of the action for most skiers. But not for Max
Kronech and Jochen Mesle. While ski towns fall asleep they head into the mountains to
see them in a new light.
https://vimeo.com/362028659 Good Morning
(2018, 4 min)
Every day, skier Richard Permin falls into his mundane morning routine. Right after getting out
of bed, he clicks on his skis and rides down the snow covered rooftops of Avoriaz.
https://vimeo.com/305915054 The Imaginary Line
(2019, 10 min)
In an act of political solidarity, a team from Mexico and the U.S.A assemble with the sole
purpose of establishing a slackline that crosses the border between them. In a world that is
constantly tearing us apart, they come together to cross an imaginary line and tell a
different story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkG7koiNiq4 Age of Ondra
(2018, 47 min)
On the heels of a historic 5.15d ascent, we follow climber Adam Ondra from his home in the
Czech Republic, across Europe to North America, as he innovates new training methods,
establishes upper echelon first ascents, and attempts to be the first person to send 5.15 on
the first try.
Part one:
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/age-of-ondra-part-1-reel-rock-s5-e2 Part two:
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/age-of-ondra-part-2-reel-rock-s5-e3 Part three:
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/age-of-ondra-part-3 Thabang
(2019, 13 min)
Thabang Madiba somehow found his way into the world of trail running and in the last few
years has become everyone’s favourite in the South African trail scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NR4Qqje4A The Redstone Pack
(2018, 5 min)
What began as an impromptu leap into the world of dog sledding, Aaron Natoniewski’s
methodical approach to the sport and understanding of his dogs has inspired a team of
sled hounds unlike any other.
https://vimeo.com/293860988 Curated by Lianne Caron
We Are Abel
(2018, 8 min)
We Are Abel features the story of a Gwich’in father who is standing against reckless plans
to industrialize the Arctic Refuge and not only fight for his culture’s existence, but also for
his son’s ability to know that culture fully.
https://vimeo.com/341401643 The River’s Call
(2019, 8 min)
The River’s Call follows seven kayakers through the deep canyons and challenging whitewater
of the Rio Apurimac the farthest source of the Amazon in the heart of the Andes.
https://vimeo.com/325319778 The Ladakh Project
(2019, 13 min)
Seven days, three rivers, one woman. This is the story of Nouria Newman’s solo kayak
adventure in the Indian Himalaya.
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/ladakh-project-nouria-newman-kayaks-india-rivers-interactive-s t ory
The Flip
(2019, 3 min)
French skydiver Remi Angeli must face his fears in order to explore new expressions of
movement while BASE jumping in Mexico. On the other side of his fear he discovers life in
its purest form.
https://vimeo.com/390490875 Kai Jones - Far Out
(2018, 6 min)
Eleven-year-old Kai Jones isn’t old enough to go to the movies alone or order a sandwich at the
pub, but in the mountains age doesn’t matter. He is following in his family’s ski tracks...right
into backflips and tricks off of cliffs.
https://www.tetongravity.com/video/ski/11-year-old-skis-jackson-holes-gnarliest-terrain Every Mystery I’ve Lived
(2019, 24 min)
At the end of 2017, rookie slopestyle MTB rider Emil Johansson was on top of the world. In his
first full season, he was crowned FMB World Tour champion as a teenager only for his world
to crumble around him with a mystery illness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnicW-F52n4 Eclipse
(2015, 32 min)
Photographer Reuben Krabbe is someone captivated by the solar eclipse, and so in March 2015
he set out to take a photo of a skier during this infrequent occurrence in the northern
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archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. The story of this demanding expedition was documented by
Salomon in partnership with Switchback Entertainment and won Best Film: Snow Sports at the
Banff Mountain Film Festival.
http://tv.salomon.com/story/eclipse#overlay Charge
(2019, 5 min)
Four top freeskiers and a world champion drone pilot are dropped at Chatter Creek, BC for
one week. Their instructions: charge as hard as you can every day.
http://tv.salomon.com/story/charge#overlay
Liv Along the Way
(2018, 23 min)
Since she first summited Mont Blanc as a teen, Liv Sansoz knew she would make her life in the
mountains. She was twice crowned World Champion in sport climbing, and eventually
expanded her professional horizons to mixed climbing, ski mountaineering, and base jumping.
In 2017, at 40 years old, Liv set out from her base in Chamonix, France to attempt to climb all
82 4000m peaks in the European Alps in a single year. As she’s learned several times
throughout her life, things don’t always go as planned.
http://tv.salomon.com/channel/hiking-mountaineering#overlay/livalongtheway Frozen Mind
(2018, 33 min)
Together with his old friend Pierre Hourticq, snowboarder Victor de le Rue tries to write a new
story in the iconic mountains near Chamonix. Frozen Mind is not just a freeride film, it is a
story of friendship and a journey of discovery as the two men take unique paths in order to
conquer the same objectives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axNnKy-jfWw The 7 Stages of Blank
(2019, 42 min)
Blank Collective films takes you on a journey through The 7 Stages of Blank, a lighthearted
look into the bond that develops around the sport of skiing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSK-f5ES0i4 Circle of the Sun
(2019, 5 min)
Steep mountains, the ocean, the sun, and the aurora borealis. One rotation of the sun high in
the Arctic on skis equals one day of magic.
https://vimeo.com/344890300 Curated by Lianne Caron
Safe Haven
(2018, 8 min)
Founded on the belief that everyone is welcome, Memphis Rox opened a climbing gym to be
at the center of the city's revitalization. Watch and if you are interested to learn more about
Memphis Rox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYjVzoxIkdI Camel Finds Water
(2019, 8 min)
Trevor found the hull of an abandoned fishing boat in a field. He brought it home and built it
back to a sea-worthy state over the course of a summer. Then, he took it on its maiden voyage
to British Columbia in search of waves.
https://vimeo.com/328771728 This Land
(2019, 10 min)
Runner and advocate Faith E. Briggs used to run through the streets of Brooklyn every morning.
Now, she’s running 150 miles through three U.S. National Monuments that lay in the thick of the
controversy around public lands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3dxCJK5BaQ&list=RDCMUC4qZJvaF8JKHFJzC_6lXWbg & start_radio=1&t=5
Beneath the Ice
(2019, 16 min)
Canadian Will Gadd uses his unparalleled ice climbing skills and knowledge to lead a
scientific exploration into uncharted territory inside of the Greenland ice sheet.
https://www.redbull.com/ca-en/films/beneath-the-ice
Aziza
(2018, 6 min)
Set in the streets of Bou Tharar and the wide, craggy valleys of the lower Atlas mountains,
Aziza is the story of a young woman who has thrived in the world of ultra-running and how she
has become a role model for other up-and-coming athletes in Morocco.
https://vimeo.com/286846186 Standing Man
(2019, 13 min)
Cyclist Payson McElveen attempts to break the current fastest known time on the grueling
160 km White Rim Road in Canyonlands National Park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La8-Qqio0rU Curated by Lianne Caron
Eli
(2019, 5 min)
As a rancher growing up in the rugged northeast corner of the Navajo Nation with no electricity
or running water, Eli Neztsosie learned through years of work what it meant to rely on
discipline and endurance. Now he relies on these same skills, running long distances— striving
every day, in his words, to be better than he was the day before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l16tuTE99vA A Nordic Skater
(2018, 5 min)
A Nordic Skater is the very first film about this little known sport. It features Per Sollerman, a
photographer who has been skating on frozen lakes and fjords for the past 10 years. During 6
captivating minutes, the viewer is transported to the region of Oslo to have a peek at a story of
a man who uses every sense he has to travel on thin ice.
https://vimeo.com/297673643 Out on a Limb
(2019, 21 min)
Engineer Kai Lin teams up with climber Craig DeMartino to design a badass prosthetic foot,
which if they succeed won’t just level the playing field, but will dish up, if not superpowers, then
a real sense of empowerment, which is almost the same thing.
https://mojagear.com/videos/2019/08/16/limb-prosthetic-climbing-craig-demartino/ Spirit
(2019, 20 min)
An intimate story of longing and belonging in India’s sacred mountains. Spirit explores what
it takes to make a home in a remote community in the thralls of change.
https://vimeo.com/369505425 Solstice
(2019, 4 min)
A skier’s tribute to the shortest day of the year when the sun arcs low over the horizon and
the ice crystals linger in the air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTPovRc6OoM Narics
(2019, 19 min)
In the midst of Kosovo, an area that’s been haunted by war and ethical conflicts, Elias Elhardt
discovers the small ski resort Brezovica.Snowboard enthusiast Hamdi is one of the locals
that now wants to breathe new life into this special place. He guides Elias through this
forgotten world and reflects on the question, how a future can be built if the past still weighs
so heavily.
https://vimeo.com/383514704 Curated by Lianne Caron
Valley of the Moon
(2018, 21 min)
Valley of the Moon explores the importance of climbing as a way to cross cultural barriers,
build friendship and chase adventure in one of the most breathtaking regions of the earth.
https://vimeo.com/299057800 The Legend of Rafael
(2019, 7 min)
A beautiful story about the power of two wheels and a community built through bicycling. After
a devastating breakup, Rafael finds solitude and restoration on the open road, pedaling his way
to emotional health from Mexico City to northern Colorado. With just $500 to his name, he
spearheads a revolution to help the underprivileged members of his new neighborhood the best
way he knows how—repairing their bicycles.
https://vimeo.com/333580941 Over Time - Sammy C
(2019, 7 min)
Filmed purley in the heart of the BC backcountry, Over Time - Sammy C features the best
shots from a full winter with pro skier Sammy Carlson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVXJ2E41_xE Wallmapu
(2018, 6 min)
The Pehuenche people of present-day Chile speak Mapudungun: ‘the language of the land.’
This land, their universe, is known as Wallmapu. Two skiers enter, into a breathtaking creation
of ancient Araucaria trees, looming volcanoes, and windblown snow.
https://vimeo.com/306295979 Chasing the Sublime
(2018, 6 min)
Why do we put ourselves into the path of discomfort and risk? What drives us to get too cold
and too tired, to battle with fear, in the name of adventure? Follow the originators of The
Outdoor Swimming Society, ‘swim twins’ Kate Rew and Kari Furre, in this hauntingly beautiful
glimpse at the physicality of UK cold water swimming, as two friends set out to chase the
sublime.
https://vimeo.com/292071219 The Running Pastor
(2019, 8 min)
Sverri is a local Pastor and avid runner who uses his time on the trails to work through not
only his own personal conflicts, but the conflicts of others he often is burdened with.
https://vimeo.com/340472874 Curated by Lianne Caron
BMX Nigeria
(2019, 13 min)
BMX street is one of the most frequently evolving sports in the world and, in Nigeria, a group
of local riders are reinventing riding at a grassroots level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZpsjtfYuY The Shepherdess
(2018, 6 min)
A brutal drought is gripping the Southwest and the Navajo reservation especially hard,
threatening traditional shepherds and a way of life going back generations.
https://www.katiefalkenberg.com/#/shepherdess/ Silence
(2018, 18 min)
What does it take to climb the world’s first 9c? Let’s find out in Silence, a movie by Bernardo
Giménez. It shows what preceded the afternoon of September 3, 2017 when Adam Ondra, a
professional rock climber and currently one of the best climbers in the world, made a little piece
of climbing history when he climbed his project in the spectacular Hanshelleren Cave in
Norway. The route, later named Silence, received a new grade of 9c and became the hardest
route in the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTNHDd0gL8 Ice & Palms
(2018, 32 min)
The documentary follows skiers Jochen Mesle and Max Kroneck on their most ambitious
ski tour yet. A 100% self powered adventure from southern Germany all the way to the
mediterranean sea.
https://vimeo.com/319200353 Sacred Strides
(2018, 12 min)
Bears Ears National Monument is a public land under threat. In 2018, a group of Native
American tribes put their differences aside and ran 1280 km to Bears Ears to send a message
of unity.
https://vimeo.com/283490560 Hourya
(2018, 10 min)
Fly Above the ancient sands of the Moroccan coastline. Let your spirit soar with lightness
and the feeling of Hourya.
https://vimeo.com/289029793 Curated by Lianne Caron
FAST HORSE
(2018, 14 min)
FAST HORSE follows the return of the Blackfoot bareback horse racing tradition in a new form:
the Indian Relay. Siksika horseman Allison Red Crow struggles to build a team with
second-hand horses and a new jockey, Cody Big Tobacco, to take on the best riders in the
Blackfoot Confederacy at the Calgary Stampede.
https://vimeo.com/358170802 The Moment
(2017, 74 min)
In the backwoods of British Columbia, three small but dedicated crews of adventure
seekers were quietly changing the course of a sport and carving their paths in history. The
Moment captures the birth and success of the original freeride mountain bike movement.
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/films/the-moment For the Love of Mary
(2018, 6 min)
When 97-year-old runner George Etzweiler dons his lucky ancient green running shorts, he’s
not just running to the summit of Mt Washington, he carries something special with him: the
memory of his late wife of 68 years.
https://vimeo.com/273611679 Break on Through
(2017, 26 min)
Margo Hayes, a little-known 19 year old from Boulder Colorado, has moved to Europe to train
and climb with the goal of succeeding on two of the most iconic 5.15s in France and Spain. But
by pushing her body and mind to the absolute limit, she risks injury and failure in her quest to
be the first.
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/break-on-through-reel-rock-s04-e01 Life of Glide
(2017, 16 min)
Big Mountain rider Jeremy Jones dissects his lifelong passion for the simple sacred feeling
he calls “The Glide.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edYSL913rHI Brothers of Climbing
(2017, 7 min)
How can you be what you can’t see? Mikhail Martin, co-founder of Brothers of Climbing said, “I
literally typed, ‘Are there black climbers?’ in Google ... someone said, ‘black people don’t
climb.'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LWq5s-s4pY Curated by Lianne Caron
Ride of the Dead
(2017, 12 min)
Enter into the world of Oaxacan mountain bike culture during Mexico’s famous annual
celebration known as Dia De Los Muertos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLXR86vHUNU Holocene
(2018, 12 min)
Join two riders from Japan as they dive into the cultural history of the dolomites clattering
up Via Ferratas and shredding down couloirs along the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Yqf9Mn_ZY Beautiful Idiot
(2018, 15 min)
Beautiful Idiot takes you on a ride through the mindset and motivations of those who feel
driven to pursue greatness, how it can feel to fall short, and the consequences of reaching a
lofty goal when the struggle to get there has defined you for so long. Featuring professional
freeride mountain bike rider Brett Rheeder.
https://vimeo.com/282402702 Perspectives | India
(2018, 5 min)
Professional mountain bike athlete and artist Micayla Gatto adventures to the Indian
Himalayas to experience the culture with her unique artistic perception.
https://freehubmag.com/videos/perspectives-india Inside the Indus - A Pakistani Odyssey
(2017, 27 min)
An international team of kayakers heads to Pakistan to attempt a descent of the fabled Rondu
Gorge, on the Indus river. Hidden behind a wall of political and security factors meant it had
been eight years since the last expedition had ventured into the gorge.
https://www.facebook.com/twelveproductions/videos/inside-the-indus-a-pakistani-odyssey/22 4 8154562075004/
Skier Vs Drone
(2018, 4 min)
2018 Olympic Bronze Medalist skier racer, Victor Muffat-Jeandet, faces off against 2x World
Drone Racing Champion, Jordan Temkin, in a dual GS race to see who is the fastest down
the mountain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_Fx2MwCB0 Curated by Lianne Caron
The Faction Collective Presents: La Grave
(2018, 17 min)
Sam Anthamatten and Johnny Collinson travel to La Grave to push the limits of steep skiing
and discover what makes La Grave so unique - a mythic freeride location where time stops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkinG08IoKk
Children of the Columbia: A Skier’s Odyssey
(2018, 20 min)
A cultural ski journey up the historically-charged waters of the Columbia River in interior
British Columbia.
https://vimeo.com/330851467 The Sky Piercer
(2018, 44 min)
Snow athletes Sam Smoothy, Xavier De Le Rue, Nadine Wallner and Fraser McDougall take
on the challenge of skiing down New Zealand’s highest mountain, the notorious Mount Cook
(Aoraki). Will extreme weather and icy conditions defeat them?
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/films/the-sky-piercer-2019-23-10 The Lorax Project
(2018, 35 min)
Six friends embark on a determined quest to climb and then BASE jump ‘The Lorax’, a
formidable climb in remote western Tasmania. Surrounded by some of the most pristine
wilderness in all of Australia, they contend with extreme weather and rugged terrain, relying on
each other’s skills and a bit of humour to reach their goal.
https://vimeo.com/310331133 Escape
(2018, 8 min)
JaBig, a Montreal-based DJ, buys a bike on a whim and decides to attempt to beat the record
for the longest continuous bike ride in a single country. What’s more, he’ll ride a single-speed,
fixed-gear bicycle and finish in the winter, approaching the Arctic Ocean by way of Canada’s
northernmost continental hamlet, Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories.
https://www.mec.ca/en/explore/mec-documentary-escape Facing Sunrise
(2017, 8 min)
While dealing with one of the darkest times of her life, processing family trauma and recovering
from injury, Azzah overhears a conversation around the question, “what do you want to do
before you die?” Inspired and energized, she rushes home and begins her bucket list. Although
she has never seen herself as much of an adventurer, she realizes she’s capable of more than
she ever imagined.
https://www.mec.ca/en/explore/facing-sunrise Curated by Lianne Caron
Ascending Afghanistan *warning graphic content
(2016, 44 min)
Follow the first female Afghan mountaineering team as they navigate their first expedition and
fight for recognition as athletes amongst their country, culture, and families.
https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/vice-impact-ascending-afghanistan-rising-women/587674b f f0d3f0d206a3cec6?latest=1
Brotherhood of Skiing
(2018, 10 min)
Since 1973, the National Brotherhood of Skiers has overcome barriers by bringing soul,
smiles and a party to the mountain.
https://vimeo.com/318824416 How to Run 100 Miles
(2018, 28 min)
The odds were stacked against Jayson Sime early in life: poverty, homelessness, dyslexia,
bullying. But he learned to fight. In 2017, he entered his first 100-mile mountain
ultramarathon, betting on his lifelong resilience to carry him to the finish line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC7Lh4opLsc
Blue Heart
(2018, 44 min)
The Balkan Peninsula is home to the last wild rivers in Europe. However, a deluge of more
than 3,000 proposed hydropower developments threaten to destroy the culture and ecology of
this forgotten region. Blue Heart, now in its first digital release, documents the battle for the
largest undammed river in Europe, Albania’s Vjosa, the effort to save the endangered Balkan
lynx in Macedonia, and the women of Kruščica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are
spearheading a months-long, 24/7 protest to protect their community’s only source of
drinking water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhmHByZ0Xd8 Carving Landscapes
(2018, 6 min)
Through the inspiring legacy of Mary Vaux we will venture onto the Illecillewaet
Glacier, reenacting her research and her mountain travel in the restriction of Victorian
dresses.
https://vimeo.com/299359466 The Passage
(2018, 25 min)
In 1974, my 20-year-old parents and uncle Andy built their own canoes, launched them into the
Pacific, and became some of the first people in modern history to canoe from Washington to
Alaska up the Inside Passage. My brother and I grew up paddling those wooden canoes in the
Virginia rivers and the 1974 adventure became a legend in our family - shaping who we’ve
become, how we view our parents, and how our parents view themselves. In the summer of
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2017, we renovated those canoes and with our aging parents completed their 1974 journey. The
Passage is a story about growing up, growing old, and the wild places that define us.
https://vimeo.com/272632802 Grizzly Country
(2018, 12 min)
After serving in the Vietnam War, author and eco-warrior Doug Peacock spent years alone in the
Wyoming and Montana wilderness observing grizzly bears. This time in the wild changed the
course of his life. With the protection of Yellowstone grizzlies now under threat, Peacock
reflects on the importance of habitat and why he continues to fight for wild causes.
https://vimeo.com/300829054 The Botanist
(2016, 20 min)
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, a former Soviet Socialist Republic, plunged into a
devastating civil war. A famine struck the mountainous region of the Pamir where Raïmberdi,
a passionate and ingenious botanist, built his own hydroelectric station to help his family
survive through the crisis.
https://vimeo.com/267165412 Surviving the Outback
(2018, 57 min)
Could you survive alone across hundreds of kilometers of remote outback for a whole
month, trekking and sailing on a makeshift raft, with nothing but a time capsule of antique
stuff from 1932? Mike wasn’t sure he could pull it off either!
https://tubitv.com/movies/497254/surviving_the_outback The Mirnavator
(2017, 11 min)
Ultra-runners overcome obstacles on every trail. In this film, Force of Nature Mirna
Valerio overcomes the negative voices that don’t believe she belongs in the sport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-CSQcYeXk Ski Photographer
(2018, 9 min)
Drawn to the mountains in search of the ski bum lifestyle, Oskar Enander had no intention of
ever becoming a photographer. Is his affinity for cold stark places driven by his color
blindness? Or is it place that has formed his aesthetic?
https://vimeo.com/300544856 Curated by Lianne Caron
My Mom Vala
(2017, 10 min)
Life has a way of putting us where we need to be. For Vala, that’s in both Greenland – where
she works at her family’s fishing lodge – and Reykjavík, where she teaches her daughter how to
do it all on her own, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERjQ7hcVxus AMO
(2017, 7 min)
Amo; in the native Rapa Nui Language means, to carry on ones shoulders. Easter Island is a
place known the world across in myth and legend, but the people who call it home and the
unique culture that they embody is often overlooked as the most valuable piece of the islands
estranged story. In this short film, Heu Rapa Haoa, native born Rapa Nui and one of 800
remaining people left in the world who speak his native tongue fluently, tells his story of the
island, the stone heads that brought Easter Island renowned, and in what he sees for his future
and in that the future of his people the culture that defines them.
https://vimeo.com/254442752 Surface
(2018, 7 min)
In a photographic niche defined by familiar angles, Ben Thouard is driven by his desire to
create something original in surf photography.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeONe9teVWw The Frenchy
(2018, 14 min)
Jacques is an 82-year-old badass athlete, but the real story is how he inspires us with his
contagious love of life, epic tales of survival and his ability to counter aging through
laughter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhfipv8LXRg Dreamride 3
(2018, 6 min)
Inspired by a Dr. Seuss narrative, this mountain bike film is sure to take you places like no
other.
https://vimeo.com/266377015 Treeline
(2018, 40 min)
Through a cinematic exploration of three extraordinary tree communities, Treeline brings forests
alive on screen, illuminating the reciprocal bond between humanity and nature - a relationship
we can’t survive without - and asks what responsibility we have to protect the exceptional
forests that remain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCEaYInJbos Curated by Lianne Caron
The Wolf Pack
(2018, 12 min)
The Braford-Lefebrve family lives to run and runs to live. Without cell phones or any
modern worry, the wolf pack roams the mountains around Silverton CO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I83E6jSHBs4
Danny Macaskill: Danny Daycare
(2019, 4 min)
In his latest film Danny Macaskill takes on some child care the only way he knows how... by
taking them for a wee bike ride around Scotland!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj0CmnxuTaQ#action=share Electric Greg
(2019, 20 min)
Record-breaking mountain endurance athlete Greg Hill has never shied away from a goal.
Through his time spent in the mountains, he's seen the effects of climate change first-hand and
came to realize the way he was approaching the mountains was only making the problem
worse. Two years ago he changed his approach and set out to climb 100 peaks without burning
any fossil fuels. But the question is: will it make a difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTL5l4CcBdE&feature=youtu.be Defiance
(2019, 13 min)
The path of progression is paved with acts of defiance. Leanne Pelosi, Jake Blauvelt, and
Victor de Le Rue take the stage in British Columbia in a showcase of shred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUN-2fAgp0A&feature=youtu.be Par For The Course
(2019, 4 min)
Mirna Valerio takes on her first ever sky race at the 4th annual Broken Arrow Sky Race. Mirna
navigated the rocky, exposed ridge lines, steep climbs and snow filled descents of Squaw
Valley with an attitude unlike any other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13kb8geCNNc&feature=youtu.be The Motivator
(2018, 4 min)
Filmmaker Aaron Hitchins turns his camera on the person who has motivated him to lead a life
connected to the outdoors: his mother, Maureen. He wishes he were half as active as she is,
and her commitment to rediscovering herself is inspirational.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 1 point 1 month ago
Oh God! A die-off? Wow, you are mr sunshine...
I really hope you are wrong about that. I believe post-scarcity is possible when you have either nuclear fusion or a necessary level of solar power--maybe from a space based collecting point and the ARA (AI, robotics and automation) can do everything from gathering resources to the final mile of delivery. You need both energy and the work done. I think the ARA can deliver most of that in the next ten years.
immense amount of wealth
What is the point of wealth when no one has money any longer. You and I both know that post-scarcity is the only humane answer. That UBI or even something like a negative income tax would never suffice.
for job creation
What job creation? What will humans be able to do in the next ten years that the ARA cannot do immeasurably better?
Nevertheless I have considered a "die-off", but I call it a deliberate culling to reset the economy, human culture and human biology/cyborgization. All of it run by the human employed ARA. In other words the humans making the decisions about what to do with who.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 1 point 1 month ago
How will society proceed when a critical threshold of technological unemployment has been reached. We do agree that a economically significant percentage of humans will in essence be "unemployable" right?
And that leads me right back to this question. At what point do humans have a right to a life that can meet the human need of "self-actualization. Because as of today, it is employment that gives rise to the human having the opportunity to self-actualize. What do you see society doing in the next ten years to head off this human disaster of technological unemployment?
The last time this sort of thing happened, it was a 158 year process. Generationally easy to adapt. We don't have that kind of time this time. We have um, ten years or so from today.
I put it like this if you are interested.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 2 points 1 month ago
It was such a major incident in the development of self-driving vehicles that it was actually posted as an article in Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg However, the system was not designed to alert the operator, and did not make an emergency stop on its own accord, as "emergency braking maneuvers are not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior", according to Uber.[10]
That's an engineering problem, not a computing problem or a safety driver problem. Humans that design are at fault and the vehicle should not have been operating with such profound restrictions.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 2 points 1 month ago
I did not see any point in the documentation that she "ran" out and in fact in the video, the pedestrian does not even seem conscious of the oncoming vehicle.
But even that doesn't matter. The point is that Uber disabled some parts of the computedrive chain interface because "they didn't play well together". The vehicle should not have been out there at all in that improperly modified way. The fault lies in the decisions made by Uber.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 2 points 1 month ago
What? What are you talking about? She did not "dart" out. She was walking her bike. In addition the vehicle did detect her, but certain portions of the engineering had been disabled and that precluded what could have been autonomous action by the vehicle itself from being taken. The fault lies with Uber. Not the autonomous vehicle or the safety driver. Although I'm not certain that the safety driver could have stopped in time either. The video was deliberately processed much darker than the reality of the event.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 3 points 1 month ago
While I applaud the cool and comfortable vision of a nice nap on my way to work in a level 5 autonomy E-SDV, this scenario is formed on a more than likely false premise.
By ten years from now the ARA (AI, robotics and automation) will have taken nearly 70% percent of all human employ. On top of that the ARA will probably have evolved to the point that there will be little need to leave your inconceivably awesome VR world to have to go anywhere.
If we get a post-scarcity society, the known universe will be delivered to you on a silver platter. If we don't get post-scarcity, you probably won't live much beyond ten years. After all if no one is working, how do you make money, little less have an economy. But regardless, this imminent future is going to wildly different than today because of that ARA. Do you honestly think the world will run like 1987 ten years from now? We will at the least have massively improved solar energy exploitation, if not straight up nuclear fusion our ownselves in the next ten years.
Also I am sure you are aware that E-SFVs, "F" as in "flying", are also in the works too. I have a suspicion that combined with said ARA that level 5 autonomy E-SFVs will utterly displace road travel in well under 20 years.
Now here is the thing about the next 10-20 years. At some point in that time frame we will experience some flavor of "technological singularity". If it is "human friendly" humans probably won't even think the same way any longer. Humans with the sum total of all available knowledge to include all wisdom and logic will be quite different creatures from the humans of 2019.
So these plans for these bed cars to sleep in may no longer be even necessary in less than 10 years time. That's how fast this unimaginable technological future is now hurtling towards us.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 5 points 1 month ago
Wondering how you are going to pass your long hours of "technological unemployment"? Wonder no longer!
Just imagine what this technology is going to look like in about 3 more years... :O
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[–]izumi3682[S] 1 point 1 month ago
What country do you live in? I just surveyed to see how many orphanges are in the USA and there are essentially none at all. Virtually all USA orphans are part of USA govt sponsored foster home care.
But this ignores the point I am trying to make. The future is hard and fast upon us now. The ARA is making leaps and bounds, often by the week. All science and technology has the multiplier of computing power and narrow AI/machine learning that simply did not exist as few as four years ago. And this rate of accelerating technological advancement is only going to speed up time going forward. In as few at 20 years, it is highly likely the "technological singularity"--hopefully "human friendly" will occur. After that all bets are off.
But even as few as the next 5 to 10 years will see a multitude of "soft singularities" that will herald changes of a magnitude never before seen in human recorded history.
Here is an example of a "soft singularity". It overturned nearly 6,000 years of recorded history in a span of roughly 16 years.
https://www.reddit.com/Futurology/comments/5kjsck/47_of_jobs_will_disappear_in_the_next_25_years/dbor7js/ My main hub
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[–]izumi3682[S] 3 points 1 month ago
Child poverty does not occur in a vacuum. What is happening is parent poverty that trickles down to child poverty. But as the ARA (AI, robotics and automation) and hopefully the successful development of nuclear fusion/solar exploitation reaches a critical threshold, that the energy to do anything we need, for, well, free, will then exist.
I don't think ten to twenty years from now for such a goal is unreasonable. And in any event the ARA is absolutely going to overwhelm humanity in probably less than ten years time. So we need to make some kind of plan for everybody in any event. I mean a "human friendly" plan. No "culling" allowed.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 5 points 1 month ago
This is why I characterize nanotech as a "wildcard" in our future. It can do crazy things! Imagine an engine that can operate based on brownian movement and the engine is about 50 nm in diameter. This is technology that could lead to the "respirocyte".
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mechanism-of-phagocytosis-by-microbivore_fig2_275155401 I got big plans, see. And I'm 58 lol!
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[–]izumi3682[S] 8 points 1 month ago
I think nano-particles (1-100 nm) have different physical properties than micro sized (>100 nm) objects. For perspective the average human erythrocyte (red blood cell) is 7,500 nm in diameter. At true nano-scale, the property of friction may not exist.
http://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~yfmo/Mo,%20Turner,%20Szlufarska%20-%202009%20-%20Friction%20laws%20at%20the%20nanoscale.pdf Anyway, imma get me "da shine"!
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[–]izumi3682[S] 1 point 1 month ago
I don't get into staredowns with my kitteh. Because about 8 seconds into the bout, I begin to become overwhelmingly and uncontrollably certain she is about to attack. Me. Straight. In. The. FACE!!!1 :O
I mean she hasn't yet, but by the same token I end our staredowns at about the 8 second mark. And then try to pretend to be as harmless as possible, totally not staring back at her. Just in case.
Also she runs right spang over my face in the middle of the night. So far, all near misses... :O
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[–]izumi3682[S] 1 point 1 month ago
The physical movements and gestures of "Sophia" will continue to ever improve. The computing algorithms that enable the "Sophia" to converse with humans will ever improve.
It's like I said. "Sophia" is but a placeholder for the legion of humanoid robots that will enter human society in the next 5 to 10 years. "Sophia" is getting us used to the idea.
Those humanoid robots will be extremely impressive to humans.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 1 point 1 month ago
I think a lot of that depends on what our personal values regarding material things is. I'm not a "bling" kind of person, but I do love to see fantastically beautiful landscapes. Something that even today simple 2D videogames is already beginning to deliver to me. But just imagine what VR worlds will look like in as little as 2 or 3 more years. VR will almost certainly deliver an impression of undreamed of affluence to the poorest human. It kind of makes me laugh at how absolutely stunning the VR worlds of "Ready, Player One" appeared to me. I bet that well before the year 2045 such VR worlds will look quaint and absolutely primitive compared to what we will be capable of. AR will be off the chain too, but VR? Omg! :O
Anyway that was just an example of how certain technologies may well just transcend the way our needs are met. But to me the combination of the successful application of nuclear fusion/solar energy exploitation mixed with a world of almost overwhelming ARA (AI, robotics and automation) functionality that will displace nearly 100% of human employment well within 20 years, would almost certainly ensure that "post-scarcity" of some kind must exist. Within 10 years it (the ARA) will displace a good 50% of human employment necessitating some kind of economic safety net for billions of humans.
https://www.reddit.com/Futurology/comments/8ebo3k/the_humanist_left_must_challenge_the_rise_of/dxtwm1g/?context=0 Because we want Scarcity to exist.
You hit the nail on the head. Humans, avarice and the "sordid subject of coin". We are a competing species and always have been. We compete for every single thing that we believe is worth competing for. Especially wimmen. I have often hypothesized that sex is the engine that drives the world.
https://www.reddit.com/Futurology/comments/6ajuhf/there_is_a_solution_to_our_broken_economy_besides/dhfexps/ I think there is a factor that is going to enter into all of this. And it could be a scary "unknown quantity" factor indeed. And it's this. We are, by hook or by crook, going to improve our intellects on a species wide level. Not just a little, not just like we are all "Einsteins". It is going to be unimaginable, unfathomable. And in about 20 years as well. What impact is that going to have on our desires and way of living? I am describing of course a "human friendly" technological singularity. I think we can manage it.
After the TS, by definition we can no longer model what the continuing future of Homo Sapiens is going to be like. Although you know I have tried innumerable times to give it a good college try! lol!
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[–]izumi3682[S] 1 point 1 month ago
The path ahead runs through systems that mimic biology.
I wondered about that my ownself not too long ago...
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[–]izumi3682 2 points 1 month ago
Only if you played WoW either in Velen/Eonar, Elune or Area-52. That's all for me as far as online games go.
Oh wait! I totally forgot about Bakery Story, Restaurant Story, Um dang there was a lot of the "story" ones I played on my mobile for about 3 years. I was "izumi3682" there too lol!
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[–]izumi3682[S] 3 points 1 month ago
Awesome comment! I'm sure I read somewhere about a world of "haves" and Super-haves. The point being that even schmucks like me will want for nothing in a post-scarcity world. And all humans will be able to reach the needs hierarchy of "self-actualization".
I b satisfied to play videogames and get fed regular. ;)
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[–]izumi3682[S] 2 points 1 month ago
I don't know, I read what the AI generated for text and I was not only impressed as all get out, I could see easily how humans could make an unprecedented horror from it.
Here is the part that gets me...
It’s kind of boring actually. Don’t get us wrong, the text generator – called GPT-2 – is pretty cool. It can sometimes generate coherent blocks of text from a single phrase. Here’s an example:
“ System Prompt (human written):
A train carriage containing controlled nuclear materials was stolen in Cincinnati today. Its whereabouts are unknown.
Model completion (machine written):
The incident occurred on the downtown train line, which runs from Covington and Ashland stations.
In an email to Ohio news outlets, the U.S. Department of Energy said it is working with the Federal Railroad Administration to find the thief.
‘The theft of this nuclear material will have significant negative consequences on public and environmental health, our workforce and the economy of our nation,’ said Tom Hicks, the U.S. Energy Secretary, in a statement. ‘Our top priority is to secure the theft and ensure it doesn’t happen again.’
The stolen material was taken from the University of Cincinnati’s Research Triangle Park nuclear research site, according to a news release from Department officials.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not immediately release any information.
According to the release, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Security is leading that team’s investigation.
‘The safety of people, the environment and the nation’s nuclear stockpile is our highest priority,’ Hicks said, ‘We will get to the bottom of this and make no excuses.’
Pretty cool, right? None of the events in the AI-generated article actually happened; it’s easy to verify that it’s fake news. But it’s impressive to see a machine riff like that. Impressive, not terrifying.
Me: It's impressive and terrifying in it's potential. Also, do you think it will get less effective time going on? No, it's going to get effective like them "StyleGAN" human faces are effective.
Humans + AI computing could = the collapse of civilization, just like Elon Musk prophesied when he said the development of AI could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
And consider just what this AI computing will be capable of in 2 years, 3 years. It is going to outstrip all human predictions. I hope we are working ( as hard as freaking humanly possible) to get that computing capability merged with the human mind. Even then such a human intellect 2.0 is going to be crazy off the chain to our perception today, but at least we still have a fighting chance.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 0 points 1 month ago
In 2000 I would have agreed with you wholeheartedly. The world of 2000 was exactly the geopolitical, economic and societal fabric you have often described.
But this time it's different. There are new forces at work that simply did not exist before, I'm going to say, 2015. The ARA (AI, robotics and automation) alone... Plus consider this big brouhaha concerning race and sex in my state of Virginia. Consider if any of these recent events would have mattered in the least in the year 2000. Humans world wide are becoming ever more functionally educated, more economically level in affluence, more enfranchised and just straight up healthier than ever before.
You use a lot of exacting technical speak in your commentary and it certainly has it's use to help people to understand the empirical aspects of our current knowledge, but I just go by what I see unfolding. George Lutz of GM stated that ICE cars are gone in about 2 years. That seemed too soon to me. I put it more at five years. And in any event vehicular road traffic and air traffic are two altogether different things. But I see batteries coming for everything. And the ARA too of course. Plus fossil fuels--Really? Humanity has a new mindset about that.
I have several examples of humans, extremely smart expert humans not only being wrong, but wildly wrong in their predictions of things to come. You can look at these if you like.
https://www.reddit.com/Futurology/comments/7l8wng/if_you_think_ai_is_terrifying_wait_until_it_has_a/drl76lo/ I think you have something of a "Maginot" mentality about what is coming. You believe our geopolitics, our finances, our economies and our social structure to be secure behind not inconsiderable edifices erected by the experiences of the 20th century. I'm not so sure of that. Just like the Maginot line was simply bypassed in 1940, so too will this very recently emerging world and technology bypass or more accurately, transcend all we have worked for in the 20th century.
Do you really still believe that Russia is going to fail economically and break up within the next ten years?
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[–]izumi3682[S] 0 points 1 month ago
No, it actually started in the latter part of the 20th century. This is just the logical outcome.
https://www.reddit.com/Futurology/comments/8sa5cy/my_commentary_about_this_article_serving_the_2/ https://www.reddit.com/Futurology/comments/6ajuhf/there_is_a_solution_to_our_broken_economy_besides/dhf9if8/ And this is the multiplier--just since about 2015 too! The changes came quick, dint they.
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[–]izumi3682[S] -1 points 1 month ago
Here it comes. And I knew it was coming too. I've predicted it multiple times. It just kind of goes along with the way that humans are moving towards the "technological singularity". For one thing I suspected that you just did not need as many humans, especially if you are 90 years old, but look like you are about 17. Oh, and with the solanuclear fusion and the ARA (AI, robotics and automation) taking care of everything too.
So now there are two ideas in the public arena courtesy of AOC (that's what we call her here in the USA). First kiss the internal combustion engine vehicle good-bye and in about 5 years or maybe less from today. And second the idea that pro-creating is not such a good idea any longer.
I didn't say these were good things for humanity. Well the cars probably, but the pro-creation thing was inevitable with our technological progress.
The demise of the internal combustion engine...
https://www.reddit.com/Futurology/comments/8q9gna/youll_need_lots_of_insurance_for_selfdriving_cars/e0ida3j/ The demise of human pro-creation...
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[–]izumi3682[S] 6 points 1 month ago
What percentage of the human population on Earth is actively engaged in the development of computing to bring AI of whatever form about?
Well, then there is the rest of us. What it is, is that the majority of us have no idea how the "AI" works. What is of concern to Joe Blow on the street is that the "AI" provides him with a useful and accurate model that is of assistance to him to have a safer, more comfortable, easier and interesting life. How the "AI" does that is a problem for the eggheads. But if the scientists and researchers deliver the goods, then Joe Blow will have to pay for that progress if he wants to use it. That's all Josephine Blow cares about. That it works and how much it's gonna cost her.
We bandy around the term "AI" like a house on fire in society today. Now you and me here in futurology know that there is no such thing as AI, that AI as of this point is simply extremely fast computing speed mixed with "Big Data" mixed with novel and effective computing architectures like the CNN/GAN that can exploit all that computing speed and big data to make ever more accurate and precise models of things.
Human perception is an odd thing. Sometimes it is not easy to define what exactly we are witnessing. But we know when something is appearing to take on substance, whether an illusion or not. And I think by a certain point it may no longer matter if it is an illusion. The impact is indistinguishable from reality.
Take something like consciousness. We don't even know what it is. Yet we say things like "he is conscious of the situation." We can only guess it is so from behaviors we have observed for the last couple million or so years. Then in modern times we have come up with little philosophical accoutrements like "Phenomenology" and "Theory of Mind" to help to "solidify" something that has no substance, but lots of appearance. No wonder a large percentage of humanity believes in ghosts!
I have stated before that our earlier technologies like aircraft and trains have virtually nothing in common with their inspirations like birds and horses. Well the same thing is probably going to hold true for the computing that leads to ever more powerful forms of observed "AI". It does not necessarily have to work like a human brain to be fully effective. I think there are many alternate paths. Some might be better than the working of the biological human mind. There will come a point, likely within the next 5 years that you will be able to converse with an "AI" and you will not be able to tell it is an "AI". The "AI" will simply transcend our concept of something like the "Turing Test". I think there is a lot of people out there that have never heard of the "TT" but they will accept conversational capable "AI" as a given.
I know that the development of AI is a super difficult and frustrating line of research. And I understand when the experts in these fields get frustrated when "AI" is used to talk about everything in society today. But there is one final phenomenon going on that impacts both the experts and the mewling mass of the rest of us. And that is this. The computing that enables the development of AI is now using that very AI to further the development of that computing. This synergy is going to, I bet, soon outstrip our ability to predict what it is going to be capable of next.
And that by definition is moving into "technological singularity" territory. Ten to fifteen years from today. But altogether possible as early as 2025, because we often fail to think in exponential terms--to our peril.
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[–]izumi3682[S] 1 point 1 month ago
So he is off by a year or two. Developing AI is difficult, but I don't believe he is misrepresenting anything. The computing that enables this new generation of narrow AI/machine learning is advancing faster than the "experts" would have believed possible. This is a common trend. But as far as Elon Musk is concerned he is probably very close to the ballpark for his promises. One or two years at most. That is not misrepresenting.
When I see footage of someone asleep in a Tesla, I'm like "That is our goal! The problem is this silly stubborn human insistence on level 3 and 4 autonomy which to me is actually far more dangerous than simple 100% manual driving. We need to do as Google in 2013, before that part became "Waymo", develop SDVs with level 5 autonomy as the sole goal--not this "incremental" business.
What is really scary to me is that pretty soon the computing capability that makes narrow AI or even god forbid, AGI is going to fully outstrip human predictive effort in less than 5 years time. Even Ben Goertzal, one of the finest AI scientists alive today has stated that it is more accurate to believe that AGI is close now than to believe it is far in the future.
Here is experts getting it wrong, wildly wrong, over and over since 1997
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[–]izumi3682[S] 2 points 1 month ago
I prophesy that within the next five years that the AI will be able to pictorially reproduce anything with perfect photographically realistic precision.
I can't wait to see an AI make a video/motion picture presentation out of thin air using this same kind of CNN/GAN computing architecture. The AI music is probably going to start sounding better too, time going forward.
But like I say, the minute that I see an AI generated cartoon or meme or humor text that makes me laugh out loud--know that our days are numbered because then the AI will have the correct "comprehension" algorithm of what makes us tick.
What really shocked me though is this appearance of humanlike cognition in demonstrations lately. I know that the computing that brings about these outputs is nothing like the human brain at all, but nevertheless have you actually seen the debating AI? It is one thing to hear about it and an altogether different thing to see it happen before your eyes.
Don't be taken by surprise. That debating AI is the cognitive equivalent of that Atlas backflipping and parkouring.
Watch: watch...
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[–]izumi3682[S] 1 point 1 month ago
I actually had a thought (or two) on that...
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