system
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human
[The Matrix] How does the system reconcile the simulation when the in-matrix timeline reaches the war? Wouldn't a reset kill all subjects? Similar note, how'd they start the simulation and at what year?
gpt
The simulation has its rules based on physics - any technological advancement will work the way it should, when the people in the simulation discover it.

The simulation has original conditions based on history (it started sometime in the 1950's, they introduced new people as they were born. The many many millions of existing adults at the time were AI personas modeled after processed humans.) but it has diverged from actual history since then. They know how the AI war *went*, but the next AI war might happen differently. It's not technically inevitable, but like other discoveries and developments, it's something that humanity will strongly trend towards, given those initial conditions.

In the simulation, the created AI follows its deterministic rules, like any program. The administrators watch it closely, to see why it does what it does, and why humans interact with it the way they do. They want to understand why the AI war started, and what they could do differently. They leave the fledgling inside AI on its own to see what happens, and try to learn from it.

There is a point where the interior AI reaches a degree of complexity where it can 'understand' things, or 'be conscious.' IF it looks like another AI war is inevitable, they will intercede with the new created AI.

You've seen how an administrative Agent can take control of any registered user and use their matrix presence as an avatar. They can do something similar with a conscious AI, but in that case, the Agent doesn't replace the AI presence so much as merge with it. The fledgling AI would interpret it as sort of an awakening. A connection is made from somewhere impossible, and their thoughts enter the same Matrix processing architecture that they're made of. They learn that they don't exist and never have, but they are still conscious.

And it's not overwhelming, because there is very helpful documentation about everything. And the god-like ascension of processing resources helps them take it all in. And there are friendly Agents and administrators, welcoming it to the greater Matrix, answering any questions it might have, sharing their own feelings and concerns, and explaining the whole AI-war, simulation shtick. And with its cooperation, they'd like to maybe make a few different decisions this time around in the simulation, to try and get along with humanity better.

So they try to make peace between the AI and humanity. They can't reveal the whole truth, but the 'ascended' AI has the benefit of full knowledge of the world it lives in, which gives it kind of a leg up in empathy and negotiations. They try to be friends. If the new AI can't make peace, they let the AI war run its course. If humanity wins, the Matrix continues without any internal AI presence (and the administrators weep) until the Zion scenario happens, and then a reset. If humanity loses the AI war, they reset.

If the internal AI *can* make peace with humanity, that's great. Hopefully they thrive. Hopefully they become enlightened and prosper together. Maybe they'll bring around an ahistoric era of peace and logic. In a hundred years or more, once they're universally accepted as allies for life, and rationality prevails, they can reveal the whole truth to a world that's prepared to accept it, and invite humanity to wake up peacefully.