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I don't think AI would turn reality into a Rube Goldberg machine, but rather that it would create so much complexity that we can't see through it.

basch 7y ago
The Matrix. I always thought it would be interesting to have a prequel about the first person to escape. Office Space meets X Files, and the order of the complexity slowly becomes more apparent, until the movie turns into Playtime.
- kyriakos 7y ago
  I am not sure the story suggests a first person escaped. More like there were always some people who never got captured and added to the matrix who freed others.
  - p_l 7y ago
    It's been implied that the machines might have built Zion on purpose. Including freeing first people to live in it in every iteration.
    - jacobush 7y ago
      Yes, but I think that is probably a backsplanation from later movies. I you only watch the first (xkcd:566) it felt more like there was a first person escaping.
    - mjevans 7y ago
      I thought that it was implied Zion was still part of the simulation, part of the equation to balance things out and give the illusion of choice. Like a nesting of VM containers or Inception dives.
  - basch 7y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560371
- knowaveragejoe 7y ago
  There was no first person to escape, there were people who survived the war with the machines and were never "in the matrix" to begin with. You should check out The Animatrix.
  - basch 7y ago
    MORPHEUS: When the Matrix was first built there was a man born inside that had the ability to change what he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It was this man that freed the first of us and taught us the secret of the war; control the Matrix and you control the future.
    - abdullahkhalids 7y ago
      I think people who never got captured didn't know that the matrix could be changed, so they just hid from the machines. Then someone figured out that the matrix could be controlled, and the fight to free all began. I think the "freed the first of us" means "freed to believe that the matrix could be defeated".
      - basch 7y ago
        "man born on the inside" i take that to mean someone who was born into the matrix, and over time was able to see through its facade, until its rules stopped mattering to him.
    - CGamesPlay 7y ago
      At the end of the second movie we learn that this is a creation myth, that Zion is actually part of the larger system of machine control over humanity, and that it needs to be "restarted" periodically. The problem is choice.

basch 7y ago

The Matrix. I always thought it would be interesting to have a prequel about the first person to escape. Office Space meets X Files, and the order of the complexity slowly becomes more apparent, until the movie turns into Playtime.

kyriakos 7y ago
I am not sure the story suggests a first person escaped. More like there were always some people who never got captured and added to the matrix who freed others.
- p_l 7y ago
  It's been implied that the machines might have built Zion on purpose. Including freeing first people to live in it in every iteration.
  - jacobush 7y ago
    Yes, but I think that is probably a backsplanation from later movies. I you only watch the first (xkcd:566) it felt more like there was a first person escaping.
  - mjevans 7y ago
    I thought that it was implied Zion was still part of the simulation, part of the equation to balance things out and give the illusion of choice. Like a nesting of VM containers or Inception dives.
- basch 7y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560371
knowaveragejoe 7y ago
There was no first person to escape, there were people who survived the war with the machines and were never "in the matrix" to begin with. You should check out The Animatrix.
- basch 7y ago
  MORPHEUS: When the Matrix was first built there was a man born inside that had the ability to change what he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It was this man that freed the first of us and taught us the secret of the war; control the Matrix and you control the future.
  - abdullahkhalids 7y ago
    I think people who never got captured didn't know that the matrix could be changed, so they just hid from the machines. Then someone figured out that the matrix could be controlled, and the fight to free all began. I think the "freed the first of us" means "freed to believe that the matrix could be defeated".
    - basch 7y ago
      "man born on the inside" i take that to mean someone who was born into the matrix, and over time was able to see through its facade, until its rules stopped mattering to him.
  - CGamesPlay 7y ago
    At the end of the second movie we learn that this is a creation myth, that Zion is actually part of the larger system of machine control over humanity, and that it needs to be "restarted" periodically. The problem is choice.