Can we make a deal?
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JoeSox wrote: I want to program a matrix for Carl to live in A menagerie by any other name. :-D Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!
Marc Clifton wrote: A menagerie by any other name. Yeah, like that. Carl can have a girlfriend like Lora Croft and they can jump around in a 3D game environment, like Lara does, or let them like in an environment like The Sims, yeah that's a better idea:rolleyes: Later, JoeSox “Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today" - James Dean (ISTP) www.joeswammi.com ↔ www.humanaiproject.org
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Aah, the first one sucks too. The whole friggin' world is based on the notion that you can get something for nothing, in the thermodynamic sense. I mean, you've got all these machines keeping people alive, feeding them slurry made from the dead bodies of other people. This is a reductionary system. Not only that, but does anyone know the incredible waste in turning that slurry into heat using a human body? My estimate is that about two to three percent of the energy in the slurry gets output as heat, and then even more is taken off the top in turning it back into electricity, even allowing for future advancements in superconductor tech, etc. Not only that, but they pan back and forth, showing you the untold billions of pods housing the whole planet's people. Any idea of the power outlay to make and manage all of that? All that expense to get a few megawatts out of those self-consuming bodies. Now, here's the kicker: no reason's ever given for the humans being left with their mental capacity. I mean, these super-smart machines don't need the people to do their processing, obviously; most of them seem to be caught up in meaningless bureaucratic jobs, pushing papers and the like. Even allowing for hard problems being parallelized and transposed into a symbolic form for the people to process as if they were just totalling up spreadsheets, the fact remains: no processing is done by an average person in totalling up a spreadsheet that can be transposed into a solution of a hard problem. No, these jobs are just to keep the schmucks busy. And why, when the machines could just pith the whole bunch? Does that sound like cold, hard machine logic? The mindless bodies would be just as good at producing heat. And don't even start saying, any of you, that you think the hogwash spouted by the old dude in the second movie makes sense. I asked a lot of awestruck people as they were leaving the theater what all that bullcrap meant, and everybody said things like, "Er, well, ya know... um. Ya know." Regards, Jeff Varszegi
You got my 5 Jeff :-) When people make a sci-fi movie the least they can do is stick to some basic science! Not show some video effects crap and satisfy the world's ready-to-believe-anything audience! Damn, that never-ending scene in 2 where Neo fights about 500 Smiths nearly put me to sleep! Nish
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His name, is Smith. ;) p.s. Hilarious sig, you big tease you. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Marc Clifton wrote: "organically fed captivity free regurgitated bee nectar" (honey) on dieting. Crikey! ain't life grand?