From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 07:40:31 MDT
Martin Ling <martin@nodezero.org.uk> writes:
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:21:36AM -0700, Zero Powers wrote:
> > >From: Martin Ling <martin@nodezero.org.uk>
> >
> > >I've got quite a lot more ideas on this going round - but I'd quite like
> > >to hear everyone's opinions on what I've said so far.
> >
> > I'm impressed.
>
> Thanks.
>
> There's a *lot* more to come. I'm trying to get this together into a
> workable RPG, so I'm going to have to cover every inch of the
> background.
What about the cartoons and novellas at the Matrix site? Some seem to
have rather interesting alternate takes on things.
> > If I had read your post before seeing the movie it would have made suspension
> > of disbelief much easier and I'd have enjoyed the movie that much more. I
> > particularly like your take that the AI's are following Asimov's laws and
> > doing what they think we want them to. I just could not buy into the
> > human-Duracel bit. I can't see how we'd make more efficient batteries than,
> > say, solar energy or even an army of cloned electric eels.
>
> No way at all.
>
> Personally, I think there were two major ickynesses to the film -
> Morpheus' explanation of the AIs, and the existence of the Oracle.
That Morpheus was making things up in order to sound more impressive
is rather believable - after you have impressed the newbie, you don't
like to admit you haven't got all the answers.
As for the oracle, I can see two explanations. One is simply that she
was a representative/representation of some other, very powerful
system with its own agenda. The other explanation would be that time
in the Matrix does not correspond 1-to-1 with outside time but is
calculated in another order, like Moravec's treatment of HashLife in
Mind Children (this is too hard to handle in a film or rpg, but my
favorite explanation). She was merely telling about already
pre-calculated scenes.
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