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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 169 points 2 months ago (6 children)

You’re shockingly close to the plot of The Matrix.

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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 143 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Me in 1999: Really? This is the peak of human civilization? Everything sucks though.

Me now: Maybe they were onto something

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[–] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (1 child)

"I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization." - ChatGPT

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[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Altman and Amodei

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[–] rustyfish@piefed.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

More like The Village by M Knight Shamalambalan.

I would sign up?

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[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Whoa, Black Betty, Shyamalan

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[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago*

Also, tangentially, the plot of project zomboid. Basically the zombie apocalypse happens in the late 90s so the survivors are stuck there forever

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