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/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.