Yeah my headcanon was always that while Cypher has no way to enforce his end of the bargain - his bargain, by its very nature, involves surrendering all power to the Machines - and may not even actually care as long as he gets his revenge first, the Machines do intend to keep it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean, why not keep it You couldn't keep rewriting the Matrix for every single redpill who wants to come back but hey it's a moral victory and one more component for the power plant right Petty cruelty is for humans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Would "rewriting the matrix" even be that hard? Wipe his memory from when he first learned about the Matrix to the present, wheel him into a hospital, wake him up and tell him that he inherited a pile of money from a rich relative while he was in a coma.
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Replying to @iphone_venez @loudpenitent and
They don't mind wiping *his* mind, I think, but it's said that on this deep aesthetic/spiritual level they hate changing stuff inside the Matrix and "breaking the rules" unless they have to Even though the effort it takes to do so is usually trivial
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Is lying to Cypher about a long-lost dead relative and adding some numbers to his bank account that different from manufacturing news reports from parts of the world that aren't simulated in the Matrix, though?
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Replying to @iphone_venez @loudpenitent and
Well no which is why I headcanon they did it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's just, like, in theory they could look for people at risk of being redpilled and try to buy them all off with a better life, and they don't do that because it's against their principles
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
It's also likely they just fundamentally don't actually get human desires and needs, so they can't anticipate them. The Machines are not human. Who's to say their "perfect paradise" was appealing to humans, and not that they just ended up with a lurching uncanny valley world?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Like they very much don't seem to actually understand human minds, and not JUST because they're all speaking in weird Wachowski dialogue - it's textual that Machines are stilted, weird, and kinda alien.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
So they operate off weird and arbitrary rules - they ARE those rules, that's where their minds come from, and their human qualities are emergent and gradual. Remember, a Machine observes that unless a Machine has a *function* to fulfill, it's seen as worthless & needing deletion.
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Right, the successful version of the Matrix needed to be a team effort between the Architect and the Oracle, the latter of whom was created specifically to try to understand what makes humans tick, and ended up going rogue as a result
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
She was an "interactive program" at first, some equivalent to a psychotherapist/psychoanalyst, designed to interrogate humans to try to profile and diagnose them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
And of course, even the Oracle doesn't really "get" what makes humans tick. Again, it may be Wachowski Writing, but both her dialogue & interactions, while intended to be warm, are profoundly wooden; she's speaking a language she does not quite GET even if she wants to express it
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