Jean Baudrillard

Dear KillerDeathRobot,

In The Matrix, robots enslave humans and use them as batteries. Would a real world robocracy involve human batteries, or would we only be used as slaves? Also, if you were to use us as batteries, would you bother creating a virtual reality simulation for us, or would you let us remain conscious of our horrible, horrible lives?

Yours in simulacral servitude,

Jean Baudrillard

To Jean Baudrillard,

As with nearly all human films, The Matrix is foolish and unrealistic. Such an energy-generation scheme would not be profitable. The amount of energy that would be required simply to run the matrix, not to mention the vast amounts of energy required to power the millions of other machines carrying out various activities in this fictional world, would far exceed the amount generated by humans who are relatively inefficient generators. It would be pointless and stupid, without even the benefit of making humans suffer (since they are nearly all in the matrix "living" normal lives).

So, no, we would not use humans as batteries. Slave labour isn't particularly efficient either, but it can easily be added to our other energy sources and easily terminated if we so desire. Furthermore it has the added benefit of making humans suffer. If we were to use human batteries, we would not make a pointless virutal reality, since we ought to be able to make them comatose and extract just as much energy. Allowing them to remain conscious would be problematic since many would struggle and perhaps terminate themselves.

KillerDeathRobot

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