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But, but, but... you're ruining the movie "The Matrix"! ;-)

• rienbdj 6y ago
  I wish The Matrix had humans in virtual reality cages because the AI had a mandate to keep them alive and well, and this was simply the most efficient mechanism for doing this. This would have made the resistance far more ambiguous as they would actually be fighting for freedom but against the well-being of humanity.
  • gruez 6y ago
    >I wish The Matrix had humans in virtual reality cages because the AI had a mandate to keep them alive and well Humans have finite lifespans, right? So all the AI has to do "relieve" itself of the burden of keeping humans alive would be to not let them reproduce. This would be pretty easy considering that it's pretty hard for people to spontaneously become pregnant while hooked up to those pods.
• frutiger 6y ago
  Apparently the original story had the AI use the network of human brains as a giant neural network. As the story goes, the movie executives thought this would be too difficult for most people to understand, so they switched it out and used the thermodynamically unviable power source motive instead.