honestly jamming all the humans into nutrient fluid pods and pumping their brains full of VR is exactly the kind of thing an AI might do if it had a utility function written to try to make it protect and help humans, and it's a shame that didn't get explored at all in The Matrix
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Replying to @chaosprime @vagueandcandid
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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I think The Matrix may be the least dystopian dystopia in popular fiction. There’s no indication that humans in pods suffer or have shortened lives (unless it’s in the animated series which I have not seen), and they seem to enjoy a quality of life superior to the ‘woken’
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if anything it's a biting critique of the fetishization of authenticity
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