most of it isn't clearly written down bc the shutdown of the MMO was really rushed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I came up with half of that premise for a story-within-a-story in an SF novel ~9 years ago ...
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The part about the Matrix being a consequence of the Machines following the Three Laws, that is...
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I wish I'd been bitter enough to invent the Oligarchs at the same time.
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I mean my singularity story has oligarchical corporations that lead to AI dicatorship >
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> based on rule constrained logic, but ends with the return of the ultimate human creator w feudal ideology
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My novel had a USA-stand-in country trying to rebuild after being royally fucked by a fascist insurgency.
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See that's how I would repitch this if I was Lana and Lilly. "the matrix meets the hunger games."
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WITH LEATHER. AND GUNS. LOTS OF GUNS.
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"as the Wachowskis', er, agent in this matter I want to assure the company that there will in fact be guns."
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IIRC the big deal with Neo coming back was simply that he could come back
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if he can still exist without his body, and then go back into his body after being dead
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it proves the line between Man and Machine is false and the Oligarchs programming falls apart
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