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And while you do someone is using your body as power plant?!

Perhaps, but the idea makes absolutely no sense at all, which is why it would only work in a Hollywood movie. In reality, if the world had little sunlight, the easiest way to make power on a large scale would be with nuclear reactors.

I read an anecdote once that the original idea was the AIs using humans as compute nodes. When a human was doing active computational work for the machines, they'd go to sleep within the Matrix. In the real world, sleep doesn't exist. Apparently studio execs thought this would be too confusing for audiences, so it was reworked into the thermodynamics-violating version in the final film. (Perhaps, though, physics aren't quite the same outside the Matrix?)

>When a human was doing active computational work for the machines, they'd go to sleep within the Matrix. In the real world, sleep doesn't exist.

That's an interesting idea, but it would also mean that all we know about human history is either made-up, or happened within the Matrix, because a world of humans that never sleep would look very different. It would also mean everything we know about other mammals is wrong too, since they all sleep too. Still, this seems more interesting than the idea that humanity peaked in 1999 and then sometime after that the machines took over and built the matrix and humans are somehow energy producers. But looking back, the idea that humanity peaked around 1999 doesn't seem too far-fetched...

You‘re not a fun person to watch movies with I reckon!

great idea for a movie tbh, maybe a series

Nice idea! "The Grid" sounds like an appropriate name

Incidentally Middle English referred to the womb as the matrix iirc

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