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Plato's cave rule (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] 76 points 1 year ago (13 children)

That makes way more sense. Whenever I watched it I always thought that there must be way more efficient sources of electricity.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It makes way, way more sense in my opinion.

    Humans are terrible batteries, but the processing power of our brain on the other hand is amazing.

    Based on the FLOPS (Floating point operations per second) today's supercomputer powered by a nuclear power station does not match the processing power of a single brain, powered by a few potatoes.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It also makes the plot a bit more meta, where the simulation they're all in is simulated using the brains of the people inside it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    A super computer performs independently of its power source. Power is power.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think the point was more about the quantity of power required to achieve results, rather than the specific sources given. IE: you can run a brain on a few potatoes, but you can't run a super computer on the same due to a lack of sufficient power output.

    Consequently you can't really run a human brain on nuclear power either, though that's probably due to radiation poisoning moreso than a lack of required power generated.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What if you use the nuclear plant to power grow lights in a hydroponic potato farm?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I like it, if we can look to harness all of the potatoes processing power, which I'm sure alone is not much (but according to the physics in portal 2, is enough to power a minor AI instance), we can do away with both having to incubate and feed the pesky human processors as well as having to run a matrix at all. I presume a potato is content with its life regardless of manipulation.

    Would've made the films far less interesting though.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Yea, that's akin to a perpetual movement machine : you can't get more out of the system than what you put in ! So the squid's power grid would be in deficit. And they would have to borrow from GERMANY because THEY invested in renewables

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