Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 years agoKnowledge is... power?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up11.1Karrow-down115
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minus-squareXEAL@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·3 years agoBut I don’t want to be Neo if he took the blue pill, I want to be Cypher if he got reconnected to the matrix with a life he chose of his own.
minus-squareswab148@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 years agoThe robots probably wouldn’t have actually done that
minus-squarethere1snospoonlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 years agoYou mean the slave masters would lie to their slaves? Surely not
minus-squareLemmysMum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 years agoDo you lie to your batteries when you put them in a remote? These are machines, why would they waste cycles on lying when you’re cooperating.
minus-squareLemmysMum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 years agoExactly, why would I lie to you, you’re co-operating.
minus-squareswab148@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoCypher would have had no way of knowing either way, so they’d probably just give him the “whatever is the most economical use of his battery life” option.
But I don’t want to be Neo if he took the blue pill, I want to be Cypher if he got reconnected to the matrix with a life he chose of his own.
The robots probably wouldn’t have actually done that
You mean the slave masters would lie to their slaves? Surely not
Do you lie to your batteries when you put them in a remote? These are machines, why would they waste cycles on lying when you’re cooperating.
Spoken like a machine…
Exactly, why would I lie to you, you’re co-operating.
Cypher would have had no way of knowing either way, so they’d probably just give him the “whatever is the most economical use of his battery life” option.