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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 168 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 141 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

Me now: Maybe they were onto something

[–] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago
  • Altman and Amodei
[–] rustyfish@piefed.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

More like The Village by M Knight Shamalambalan.

I would sign up?

[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Whoa, Black Betty, Shyamalan

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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