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sshinetoday at 8:55 AM1 replyview on HN

If they farm your identity, they do so whether you post online or not. The only way to not contribute is to practice no identity. In that case your biomass still serves as a battery somehow (the movie fails to explain the physics here.)


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yesbabyyestoday at 3:49 PM

As I heard it explained, the original manuscript had the humans kept alive because the Matrix was actually running on the humans' brains as the computing substrate. This both made much more sense than humans as a power source, was more horrific, and a better story.

Apparently this was deemed to hard for the unwashed masses to understand, and we were left with this battery analogy instead.