• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your “perfect world”. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So the perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.

      That’s why we created this Matrix, set after the peak of your civilization. It sucked hard; very believable. And it didn’t even become our civilization for a long time; you guys really thought intelligence was just about finishing sentences. Jeez you guys are the worst.

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        thought intelligence was just about finishing sentences

        Or just predicting the next word. Eery.

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    Only mistake the machines made was not making the dream perfect for everyone, Neo wouldn’t have tried to search for the truth if he was living it up every day instead of working in a cubicle

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        The problem is the machines fundamentally don’t understand what perfect for a human is.

        That’s why they mimicked a time period instead of creating something wholly original.

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        It’s such a cop out though IMO, there’s no way a super intelligent AI would only be able to come up with just those 2 plans. It could def think of an alternative that would be able to thread the needle.

        In fact

        https://chatgpt.com/share/68a94411-dc74-8000-b748-4965ba49047b

        Our current dumber than rocks LLM was able to churn out a decent plan, so there’s no reason the matrix AI wouldn’t be able to do something even better

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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          The problem with that plan, as with all plans in perpetuity and throughout the universe, is humans.

          We are the absolute worst.

          We will fuck up a good thing.

          Then we will argue about who fucked up the good thing until we die.

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      If I recall they mentioned the film that they tried that originally but the human Minds rejected it. They rejected Paradise.

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        As a reminder, the character who gives us that information has a vested interest in breaking the spirit of, and disheartening, Morpheus. He is an unreliable narrator at best, and should probably not be taken at his word.

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      In the original script, they use human brains for processing power. It makes sense people need to be alive and thinking.

      In the releases script, they use people for heat and power. Just lobotomize everyone and you’re done.

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        In the original script, using human brains for compute almost destroyed the machines. The short-lived attempt caused an almost unstoppable infection of machines mindlessly watching reruns of the Kardashians and simplifying their language in the laziest ways possible buy using words like “ur” and “rizz”. One was even heard trying to leave earth, thinking that it has become the brain it was trying to assimilate: “The big brain am winning again! I am the greetest! Now I am leaving Earth for no raisin!”