Cyan2 comments on Fundamental Doubts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan2 12 July 2008 01:43:33PM 6 points [-]

Tim Tyler, the thermodynamically problematic part of the Matrix is the fact that humans had induced something like nuclear winter to deny the machines the energy of the sun. Morpheus states that the machines then used humans as a source of energy. Humans get their energy from food: no sun implies no food implies no humans.