• itsnotits@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    In The Matrix, humans were used as batteries. The energy requirements needed by a body to sustain itself outweigh feeding it to extract energy. It would’ve been more efficient to burn the food directly instead of feeding it to people.

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      17 days ago

      Originally it was humans being used for their brains as processing units, but they thought thatd be too confusing for audiences so they went with batteries.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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      17 days ago

      In the original script, they were used for processing power, but the C-suites made them change it because they feared spectators wouldn’t understand.

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        17 days ago

        That’s really interesting but I think that suffers from a similar issue because I’d assume the processing power needed to run the matrix alone would be much greater than 1:1 per human.

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          17 days ago

          They needed special kind of problem solving computation, that only human brains can do. Like generating text or something.