• Javi@feddit.uk
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    7 hours ago

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

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        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.