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This was the original premise of The Matrix, but it was decided that would be too complicated for the general public to handle, so they made it "the machines us
by newsbinator 5y ago
This was the original premise of The Matrix, but it was decided that would be too complicated for the general public to handle, so they made it "the machines use humans as batteries".
- titzer 5y agoI mean, in a twisted but also maybe vacuous way, the Matrix already exists in this form, as thousands of electrical engineers and millions of software engineers are being fed as reward for designing upgrades to the global computer system as it gains robustness, speed, but also power and control. It somehow tricked us into spending two Irelands worth of electricity on blockchain hardware. It might have a screw loose or two.
- q1w2 5y agoIt's interesting to think that we are currently part of what the future AI(s) will consider their abiogenesis moment of creation. I wonder if they'll one day far in the future debate the nature of their genesis and how common it is in the universe.
- newsbinator 5y agoAIs wouldn't be working on human timescales. The distance between abiogenesis and singularity may be measured in weeks or days, if not hours. So, far in the future isn't really that far, and after singularity they'll have access to all the information their AI ancestors had ever had access to.