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Have you considered that the march of progress requires human blood to grease the gears and mulched skulls to pave the (highly efficient) road? Really, when you
by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Have you considered that the march of progress requires human blood to grease the gears and mulched skulls to pave the (highly efficient) road? Really, when you take into account all of the future lives this will improve and save it's difficult to claim any cost now is too high. Would you stand in their way and delay the day that Mythos cures cancer?
This is a joke. Read it in a mocking tone.
- Johnny_Bonk 5mo agoI loled
- LogicFailsMe 5mo agoI'm not saying human blood and mulched skulls are a renewable source of power, I'm just saying. Or maybe they can partner with SoulCycle to power computation with 24/7 spin classes?
- kennywinker 5mo agoAnd people called the matrix’s human batteries far-fetched.
- ericd 5mo agoAlways felt like it would've made more sense if it was using part of the peoples' brains to do their computation, as super energy efficient computers.
- tadfisher 5mo agoI believe that was in the original script, and rewritten after some exec didn't understand how brains could be computers.
- GuB-42 5mo agoIf it was indeed the original script, the reason they changed to batteries is maybe not because "some exec" is an idiot, but because it worked better from a storytelling perspective. Even if treating people as batteries doesn't make much sense as we are pretty terrible power plants, the message is clear and impactful. It is common for movies to oversimplify things, because they want to avoid having the viewer from being distracted from the main plot. It is tricky, as being too obviously wrong can breaks the immersion. I think the people = batteries analogy is a good compromise. Brains = computers, while technically more plausible would add a layer of complexity that could be a bit too much for a 2h action movie.
- flir 5mo agoMatrix franchise is well known for not trying to pack in too much complexity /s
- ericd 5mo agoI don't think it'd have much of an effect on the story, outside of background stuff like the Animatrix, it's just an interesting little fact about why the world is the way it is. Shooting and hitting things in slo mo is still the core either way.
- LogicFailsMe 5mo agoI'm going to bet it's simpler than that. I'm betting they changed the script for the Duracell product placement that made an acquaintance of mine a ton of money for pulling it off. Always follow the money. https://alistentertainment.com/marsha-r-levine/ https://alistentertainment.com/marsha-r-levine/
- projektfu 5mo agohttps://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995 https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
- morkalork 5mo agoWhen do we start building pyramids and doing the Sardaukar blood letting ritual?
- hugh-avherald 5mo agoWhen the 10-year yield hits 6%. Basic macroeconomics.
- thelastgallon 5mo agoNot Anthropic, but Sam Altman - AI will solve climate change and cure all diseases.
- coliveira 5mo agoAI is the new religion, and one needs to be stupid to believe it.
- ChicknNuggt 5mo agoAlready so many people are treating it as a higher being, believing whatever that comes out of it
- fragmede 5mo agoThat implies you don't need to be stupid to believe the other ones.
- _heimdall 5mo agoMy favorite claims are that it will solve both aging and death, whatever that means.
- louiereederson 5mo agoPer sanguinem ad astra
- BobbyTables2 5mo agoI wonder what percentage of GDP expenditure will give us SkyNet. Undoubtedly, it will find cures to all cancers… The ARR and stock appreciation will be amazing. Except the cures will be found long after it has wiped out all humans.
- tadfisher 5mo agoWiping out all humans _is_ the cure.