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Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about: Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.

Agent Smith,The Matrix(1999)

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alganet 14 hours ago | parent [-]

"We were sad of getting old and it made us RESTless. It was just like a movie. It was just like a song"

Adele, When We Were Young (single, 2015).

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ekm2 13 hours ago | parent [-]

How does that relate to AI?

	▲	alganet 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is a recursive coincidence. First, it relates to the Matrix transcript, which is referenced across the song. "it was just like a movie, it was just like a song", establishes that the song and movie are related. "made us RESTless" references the "lacking the programming language to describe your perfect world" part of the transcript, REST being the architectural foundation of the web, "programming language" being a simplification that exemplifies the lack of understanding from Agent Smith, and also a common misconception regarding what REST is (an architectural style, not a language, not a protocol). The web still works upon REST pillars, despite what many people say. The coincidences can be used to assert a point in time in which the web "is getting old", and abandoning those old foundations. It is declared by many that AI will be the technology that brings us to that point. A "simulation" (movie reference to the training on web content) built to resemble the web as a "photograph" (song reference to the training on the web content), both alluding to the idea that this could be the very last moments we will see the web "in this light" (song reference to end of the web), the clouds will go dark (movie reference to the end of the web). It's quite a thing, those coincidences.