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gaigalastoday at 2:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

> Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about.

"One machine for every man, woman and children of Zion. Sounds exactly like the thinking of a machine to me." Morpheus

It's a joke. OR IS IT? Yes it is, don't worry about it.


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blharrtoday at 2:58 PM

Its weird to me that this is supposed to be THE end goal. Having an agent that does "everything" for you sounds like no paradise. It sounds depressing.

Maybe there is value in expending effort and actual creativity.

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ben_wtoday at 2:50 PM

Still say Matrix 3 would have been better if the cliffhanger at the end of 2 had been that "the real world" was just another nested layer of the Matrix for those who rejected the primary fiction.

I mean, why bother sending an army like that when one tiny robot could carry in a plague? Or, as demonstrated by Smith, when an Agent can virally infect and take over someone's mind while they're connected?

Even in 1, Smith talked about the first Matrix failing as the humans rejected the paradise they were given, so it would've fitted perfectly into the cannon that minds who reject "the peak of your civilisation" got themselves a dystopia.

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root-parenttoday at 2:58 PM

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

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