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Being stuck in a pod by yourself makes it kinda difficult to get intimate with someone in the real world.

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[-] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 8 points 9 months ago

When someone dies in the Matrix, their body gets reconnected to another baby in the Matrix

But why would the bother with this? How would that help with anything?

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

That would actually be a good idea. With people growing up and learning on their own, you don't have a fully controlled system. The world inside the Matrix will be evolving and from time to time there will be some glitch somewhere. If you have a base of defined childhoods, then only physical differences between bodies and random occurences inside are uncontrolled

If I were to construct the Matrix, I would go after cloning (fewer biological lottery) and predefined lifepaths to keep everything nice and stable

[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Kinda reminds me of Brave New World

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Well, they also were after stability

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Imagine a power plant based on millions of hampsters running on wheels. And some kind of video game that gets them to run.

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It doesn't have to be hamsters

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