[ExI] Slavery in the Future

[The Avantguardian]

I wrote:
> The
> fictional
> >  history of the Matrix movies are a cautionary tale against
> programming
> >  machines for emotion, most especially love. Love begets jealousy
> and
> >  envy. Next thing you know you have ten thousand Greek war ships
> sailing
> >  toward Troy.

--- Kaj Sotala <xuenay at gmail.com> wrote: 
> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/fictional-evide.html

Oh yes, fiction is wrong more often than not. But then again, sometimes
it is almost exactly right:

http://www.nashvillewebreview.com/automat/fort/titan.htm

Just because something is fiction does not mean it has a zero
probability of occuring. That said, I wasn't suggesting that the
machines would put us in pods. The only part of the Matrix I was using
as an illustration was how *emotion* initiated the chain of events that
led to all out war against the machines. And that is far more likely
than the machines figuring out a way to power their civilization from
human biothermal energy.


Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"Life is the sum of all your choices."  
Albert Camus


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