Comment by perardi

2 days ago

According to Reddit…so, grain of salt…that is an urban legend, related to a Neil Gaiman short story that appeared on the Matrix promo website.

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1amree7/theres_a_wi...

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perardi

bee_rider 2 days ago

I think we the urban legend really sticks around because the compute explanation just makes much more sense and we all want this beloved movies not to have a sill (albeit inconsequential) plot hole.

perardi 2 days ago
Oh, totally, it’s my head canon as well.
- bee_rider 2 days ago
  
  Mine is either that, or, the idea I mentioned in this post:
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185076
  Machines trying to be benevolent, but overly controlling.
  
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dcx 2 days ago

It exists and is a great read – https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Goliath

Check the archive.org link at the bottom!