But the VR reality is so relentlessly unhappy that it seems like Roko's Purgatory.
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they went to the trouble to establish that we wouldn't accept a more pleasant world
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can't believe all these negative singularity scenarios and nobody thought to make these AIs do gradient descent to maximize both individual freedom and societal wellness
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the trouble is how do you teach it what individual freedom and societal wellness look like without winding up in the scenario where the image analysis software thinks the turtle is a gun
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As well as the point that was actually made in the first film but never actually drawn out - the seemingly drab mundane office drone world Anderson inhabits was chosen not to pacify humanity, but because the 1990s were “the height of your civilisation” - as good as it ever got
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If the directors had wanted, that could make a devastating rebuttal to exactly the kind of anarchist smash-the-system rhetoric the Matrix nodded to and encouraged. “You want to escape? To where? Out there it’s just dead earth. This is literally as good as it ever got.”
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Did you watch animatrix?
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Yeah the whole justification for canning humans is pretty ass backwards in Matrix. In the original scipt the robots used human brains as a big neural network, that was better, but this would have been a really good angle.
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