Like - what job would our enslaved uploaded minds have that wouldn’t be better done by the unoccupied computer equipment? I know this is a weird point to get hung up on but that is where I break, I guess
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To be fair I do think that if we could somehow combine the raw computational power of a computer with the administrative and co-ordinating flexibility of a human mind that'd be like optimal but that's clearly not what Bilek is suggesting
aug 31, 2025, 5:24 am • 9 0 • view
It's like the Matrix. In THE MATRIX, I believe the canon take is that the Machines use humans for bioelectric power, and the original take (which was discarded for being too complex) is that they use them for cloud computing. And both of those seem suboptimal!
aug 31, 2025, 5:24 am • 11 0 • view
If you're a machine which can spin off massive numbers of non-agentic machines for minimal cost, which the Machine gestalt clearly can, there's only one reason to integrate humans as nodes: to do tasks for which the optimal solution is not efficiently computable
aug 31, 2025, 5:24 am • 11 0 • view
I take The Matrix metaphorically and assume that the human batteries are just participating in capitalism
aug 31, 2025, 5:26 am • 7 0 • view
I like to read things literally that are clearly meant to be read metaphorically or allegorically because I'm the most annoying person alive
aug 31, 2025, 5:30 am • 7 0 • view
lol
aug 31, 2025, 5:42 am • 3 0 • view
Also The Matrix wants to be both literal and allegorical at the same time
aug 31, 2025, 5:45 am • 3 0 • view