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ImoJenny t1_iwcppf2 wrote

I don't think that's what anyone here is about and humans make terrible batteries

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blueSGL t1_iwcsnag wrote

wasn't the initial idea to use people as processors but, due to when the movie came out, that idea was not as easy for the general public to grok ?

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ImoJenny t1_iwculp7 wrote

Not really sure, but that would make sense with the caveat that Heinlein kinda blows and Stranger in a Strange Land was a terrible book that promotes fascist ideation and is borderline unreadable even to someone who chewed through so many of his other works.

Edit, because the thread is locked: "Grok" is from Stranger in a Strange Land.

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blueSGL t1_iwcyphh wrote

you sure you are in the right reply chain, I thought we were talking the matrix (and it's been some time since reading Stranger in a Strange Land but I thought that was a guy coming to earth from mars with super human powers)

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Brangible t1_iwcyvmv wrote

You can't know that humans can't be useful batteries, have you tried?

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