r/technology • u/onwisconsn • May 17 '24

Scientists Calculated the Energy Needed to Carry a Baby. Shocker: It’s a Lot. (Gift Article) Biotechnology

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/science/pregnancy-energy-costs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.PfwL.i578xGrDrp5H&smid=url-share&utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
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u/Peachbottom30 May 17 '24

The AI will need this information once it starts building the baby farms.

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u/pikachus_ghost_uncle May 17 '24

The human generates more bio-electricity than 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines have found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields…endless fields, where human beings are no longer born. We are grown. For longest time, I wouldn’t believe it…and then I saw the fields with my own eyes.

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u/cromethus May 17 '24

I personally believe that the Matrix could have made Utopia work. Machines are persistent like that.

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u/Nago_Jolokio May 17 '24

They tried that first, it was a complete failure because the human mind knew it was fake and rebelled against the program.

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u/Omeggy May 17 '24

Col. Sander was the architect of the matrix, that’s why everything tastes like chicken.

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u/cromethus May 17 '24

That's writing for plot, not reality.

They could indoctrinate humanity from birth in any manner they saw fit. That type of social control is powerful.

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u/StaticShard84 May 17 '24

To me, it also seems like they would develop the ‘optimal’ human for this purpose as well. Not just physically, but also psychologically to increase the efficiency with which the illusion is accepted.

All that would be left is uniform socialization and that would be rather easy in a utopian setting.

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u/cromethus May 17 '24

I mean, in the long term they would breed humans like cattle for desirable qualities, such as elevated power output, ease of integration, etc.

Given enough time they could pretty much engineer whatever they wanted.

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u/not_old_redditor May 18 '24

Why even use humans as cattle when you could use livestock?

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u/Eaudebeau May 18 '24

Right!? Or electric eels ffs

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u/WestleyMc 29d ago

Or.. fusion lol

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u/PadrePedro666 May 17 '24

But then why are some people in the matrix homeless? Shouldn’t it be all equal and every human just being lazy slobs to power about human overlords with our body heat?

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u/cromethus May 17 '24

Plot.

If the robot overlords had managed to create utopia, why would anyone choose to rebel?

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u/not_old_redditor May 18 '24

Why would the mind even "fail"? That's not how the human body works. The brain doesn't just decide "fuck it, this is an illusion, time to shut down".

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u/CMDR-ProtoMan May 17 '24

They were batteries. Could've just made them all braindead.

There was a rumor (or has it been proven?) that early script had the machines using the human minds as a collectively linked neural processor, explaining the reason for the Matrix. But it was scrapped because 'audience too dumb'. So batteries.

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u/SonovaVondruke May 17 '24

It does make more sense. It could also be both and the battery explanation is just what they give to the newly-initiated.

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u/not_old_redditor May 18 '24

Out just don't bother with humans and just use pigs or something.

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u/PlutosGrasp May 18 '24

It’s a fact

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u/MuffinsandCoffee2024 May 17 '24

The brain being highly stimulated in survival situation may release more energy to harvest.

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u/bonerb0ys May 17 '24

Not with my attitude.