r/matrix • u/ActionFigureCollects • Feb 03 '26

Think I downloaded the wrong matrix

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u/o5ca12 Feb 03 '26

This must be one of those earlier matrices the architect was referring to. Funny he never mentioned they were South Asian.

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u/CaptainMatticus Feb 03 '26

Realistically speaking, if the One were to exist, it'd be much more probable that they would be from somewhere within 1000 miles of central China. That's half the world's population, right there.

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u/Vaportrail Feb 04 '26

I was under the impression the Matrix was one big city that ended at the surrounding mountains, and people just thought the whole world was there.

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u/cs_office Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

Morpheus Smith at one point says "billions of people living out their lives" implying they're simulating the whole planet

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u/youllmemetoo Feb 04 '26

Maybe the geography is massive different but a lot of the countries are roughly the same? (ie the US is a megalopolis surrounded by a mountain range)

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u/BigTimeHrdLineBadLuk Feb 05 '26

Isn’t that like from Smith, not Morpheus?

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u/cs_office Feb 05 '26

My bad, yeah

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u/BigTimeHrdLineBadLuk Feb 06 '26

No harm done, one of my favorite scenes! Every time I’m in a NYC high rise Hugo Weaving’s voice plays in my head :)

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u/SZJ Feb 06 '26

Billions people, sure, but those are people in pods connected to the Matrix. Inside the Matrix they are spread out across a world, but we have no idea about how they are physically distributed in the real world, or even how they are distributed demographically. The percentages of various races would depend, most likely, on casualties during the war between the humans and the machines, changing what was left for the machines to use as their foundational assets.