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Skynet labor camps

cm2187 8y ago
On the other hand, the prisoners can proudly write "Machine Learning" on their CV instead of having a gap!
rishabhd 8y ago
My thoughts, exactly. Or even like The Matrix where humans are farmed for energy. Here, they are farmed for their mind to train the next AI, which might in a worst case scenario rule them someday. Somehow reminds me of this beautiful piece [1] by Maciej Cegłowski . [1] https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
- ben_w 8y ago
  I once found what looked like an early draft of The Matrix. Instead of body heat being used for power, part of each enslaved human’s brain was used as an organic supercomputer to control the fusion reactors.
  - misnome 8y ago
    The story goes that the studio executives wanted it changed to energy because they thought that viewers wouldn't understand using brains for computing power. Hard references to this fact are hard to find, though https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executive-meddling-the-cause-of-humans-as-batteries-in-the-matrix https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv... seems to collect a couple of secondary sources.
    - ben_w 8y ago
      That looks like it could be the version I read. Thanks for the link!
    - jnurmine 8y ago
      Strange that viewers would struggle to understand using captive brains for computing power, but would have no problems with a whole lot of other concepts from the movie... Then again, the plot is the usual Hero's Journey (Campbell) like the majority of Hollywood blockbusters tends to be, but I guess the devil is in the details (illusory matrix/maya, recursive resurrection/enlightenment of Neo, the Christian theme of consuming an apple (pill) from the tree of knowledge and the subsequent expulsion from "paradise", etc.) The Matrix trilogy is good on many levels, but I can't buy the "people used as batteries is easier to understand than people as compute accelerators". There are plenty of other, perhaps more relevant, places to dumben down in the Matrix if one goes down that road.
- chupasaurus 8y ago
  > like The Matrix where humans are farmed for energy That's how Morpheus was told or wanted to present the reality. You cannot produce energy by breeding and feeding humans due to the law of conservation of energy. As later in Animatrix Wachowski sisters showed, the machines were simply conserving humanity.
  - kevinventullo 8y ago
    I forget where I read it, but supposedly in the original script, the machines were using humans for the computing power of their brain. They went with body heat instead because that was something audiences would more easily understand.
- kurtisc 8y ago
  >which might in a worst case scenario rule them someday Or, in a more realistic scenario, might learn how to discern between an article about a tech company and an article about an orchard.

Skynet labor camps

On the other hand, the prisoners can proudly write "Machine Learning" on their CV instead of having a gap!

My thoughts, exactly. Or even like The Matrix where humans are farmed for energy. Here, they are farmed for their mind to train the next AI, which might in a worst case scenario rule them someday. Somehow reminds me of this beautiful piece [1] by Maciej Cegłowski . [1] https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

ben_w 8y ago
I once found what looked like an early draft of The Matrix. Instead of body heat being used for power, part of each enslaved human’s brain was used as an organic supercomputer to control the fusion reactors.
- misnome 8y ago
  The story goes that the studio executives wanted it changed to energy because they thought that viewers wouldn't understand using brains for computing power. Hard references to this fact are hard to find, though https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executive-meddling-the-cause-of-humans-as-batteries-in-the-matrix https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv... seems to collect a couple of secondary sources.
  - ben_w 8y ago
    That looks like it could be the version I read. Thanks for the link!
  - jnurmine 8y ago
    Strange that viewers would struggle to understand using captive brains for computing power, but would have no problems with a whole lot of other concepts from the movie... Then again, the plot is the usual Hero's Journey (Campbell) like the majority of Hollywood blockbusters tends to be, but I guess the devil is in the details (illusory matrix/maya, recursive resurrection/enlightenment of Neo, the Christian theme of consuming an apple (pill) from the tree of knowledge and the subsequent expulsion from "paradise", etc.) The Matrix trilogy is good on many levels, but I can't buy the "people used as batteries is easier to understand than people as compute accelerators". There are plenty of other, perhaps more relevant, places to dumben down in the Matrix if one goes down that road.
chupasaurus 8y ago
> like The Matrix where humans are farmed for energy That's how Morpheus was told or wanted to present the reality. You cannot produce energy by breeding and feeding humans due to the law of conservation of energy. As later in Animatrix Wachowski sisters showed, the machines were simply conserving humanity.
- kevinventullo 8y ago
  I forget where I read it, but supposedly in the original script, the machines were using humans for the computing power of their brain. They went with body heat instead because that was something audiences would more easily understand.
kurtisc 8y ago
>which might in a worst case scenario rule them someday Or, in a more realistic scenario, might learn how to discern between an article about a tech company and an article about an orchard.