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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 97 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

Human CPU originally, but the directors thought people were too stupid to know what that meant at the time (which might have been right, nobody I knew had a computer at that time) and changed the human brain neural network into “you’re all batteries actuallly”

[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

To be fair, I have no idea what a CPU is

[–] markz@suppo.fi 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They didn't even have to use the term, just say the machines use human brains to process data or something.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ok I could have grasped that

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