Nikolaj Coster-Waldau fears society’s obsession with youth and know-how stems from fear over dying.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau fears society’s obsession with youth and know-how stems from fear over dying
Finest identified for taking part in Jaime Lannister in Recreation of Thrones, the 55-year-old has additionally opened up about his considerations on the usage of synthetic intelligence.
Talking to The Unbiased from New Jersey throughout promotional work for the BBC drama King and Conqueror, the Danish actor mentioned: “(Concern of dying is) why now we have an business of issues you should purchase to fake it doesn’t exist, whether or not it’s facial remedies, hormone injections or cosmetic surgery.
“But it surely’s a waste of time making an attempt to inject an excessive amount of vitality into that worry, as a result of there nonetheless hasn’t been anybody who’s not ended up useless.”
Recalling the dying of William the Conqueror, the determine he portrays in King and Conqueror, he added: “He wished to be buried in Cannes, in France, they usually had this stone sarcophagus prepared for him, however he was fairly giant on the finish of his life, and it took time to get his physique there.
“Within the French warmth, he turned form of like a whale, with the gases. They needed to poke a gap in him, so he form of… exploded.
“There’s one thing actually humorous about it – on the finish of the day, he’s only a massive ball of rotten flesh.”
Turning to the rise of AI, Nikolaj added: “For some cause, with AI, we’re being advised that there isn’t a alternative, and just one method ahead, and it must be as quick as we will, in case another person will get there first. However what are we aiming for?
“Our flesh pressers are simply going, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,’ – as a result of we’re advised, ‘The Chinese language are coming, the Russians are coming, the People are coming!’
“And within the meantime, you simply see the inventory costs of those corporations going shooooop!”
Nikolaj, who has additionally been filming the second season of his Bloomberg TV documentary An Optimist’s Information to the Planet, went on to hyperlink the themes of King and Conqueror to in the present day’s conflicts.
He mentioned: “You take a look at these guys and their immense ambition, and naturally you see in the present day, all these males who wish to rule the world, and all these wars occurring.
“The irony, after all, is that this present is about 1,000 years in the past, and nothing appears to have modified.
“We’ve rulers who manipulate, and really rapidly they invoke some form of non secular supernatural energy, on their behalf, to manage individuals, after which individuals associate with it.”
He added: “Leaders create all these f****** narratives about how their warfare is simply.
“We do study from historical past, however we additionally repeat a variety of issues.”
