turns out reading this thread I'm still really irritated that humans in the matrix were used as "batteries" in violation of the laws of thermodynamics instead of computational substrates its not even autism the story of humans generating the matrix themselves wouldve been betterhttps://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/1216778094553575430 …
Humans consume a ton of energy even at basal metabolic rates. Really everything alive is extremely inefficient as an energy store compared to even primitive electrochemical approaches.