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minus-squareBudgetBandit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoMatrix actually makes more sense if the machines use the brains as processors
minus-squareOrangenkuchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoI heard somewhere that this was the original plan. They changed it because computers were new and they didn’t think people would understand “using human brains as CPUs”
minus-squarebirthday_attack@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThat’s a common misconception that’s been passed around the Internet so long that it’s become common knowledge. There’s a great (now deleted, but archived) writeup showing that the Wachowskis always intended humans to be batteries. The actual source of the “processors” idea came from a Neil Gaiman short story written to promote the movie at its release
Matrix actually makes more sense if the machines use the brains as processors
I heard somewhere that this was the original plan. They changed it because computers were new and they didn’t think people would understand “using human brains as CPUs”
That’s a common misconception that’s been passed around the Internet so long that it’s become common knowledge. There’s a great (now deleted, but archived) writeup showing that the Wachowskis always intended humans to be batteries. The actual source of the “processors” idea came from a Neil Gaiman short story written to promote the movie at its release