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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Torment Nexus (or it will be as they scale up).

Serious ethical guidelines and research into pain etc., should be required, but capitalism.

[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

Ah a small step for man, a giant leap for our matrix overlords!

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

the matrix plot would have made much more sense if they were using humans as bio CPUs rather than batteries… which they have to feed with food (energy).

[–] lime@feddit.nu 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

that was the original script :(

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The one they stole? Edit: I was recalling incorrect reporting from a decade past. More detail in the following thread.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

oh? haven't heard this one

Edit: op didn't deliver, i looked it up. what a loon.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/strange-story-of-woman-who-successfully-sued-matrix-directors-plagiarism/

[–] dawcas@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Admittedly my recollection was vague. Here's the first link I found that is telling the story.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/strange-story-of-woman-who-successfully-sued-matrix-directors-plagiarism/ Seems like there was reporting about a decade ago that the claimant was successful in her plagiarism lawsuit when she really wasn't.
https://thingsthatkeepmeupatnight.substack.com/p/the-mother-of-the-matrix-and-the This goes more in depth to her claim and serves to underscore just how tenuous the claims of plagiarism/similarity are.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 18 points 3 days ago

they were originally suppose to make them about cpu, but the directors assumed audiences wouldnt understand the references, it doesnt make sense since the robots can use nuclear power, geothermal energy, and wind.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Mechanicus: heavy breathing

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

or the enterprise episode where the repair station AI used alien brains it kidnapped to increase its CPU power, permanently damaging the brains of the ones that stayed there the longest.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't get too exited, it appears to run on baloney.

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Needs to be called Magi (Neon Genesis Evangelion reference)

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

There are too many units, to be Magi it needs to be three. (Magi was a reference of three wise men of the bible or three magi)

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 5 points 3 days ago

i don't have enough to spare any, sorry.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago

Keep all cheese out of the facility.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

The Christians are going to love this one

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Does that mean there are 5375 "data centers" in my head right now?

Where are the stats about storage, processing power, etc?

Clickbait bullshit.

https://www.brain-zone.net/learn/research/facts/neurons-in-human-brain