• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I was gonna bring up the human batteries in the Matrix, but I like your thing better.

    • Lmaydev@programming.dev
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      This still pisses me off.

      The original idea was they use our brains for processing power. Which actually makes sense.

      But the studio thought people would have trouble understanding that.

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        The people who would have trouble understanding that wouldn’t be good candidates for matrix insertion though, so there’s at least some symmetry.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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          They have the same wetware and clearly aren’t using it. That gives the machines extra downtime to run on. They’re excellent candidates.