Why did the AI choose to set matrix-world in 1990s?
Smith states that a “perfect” world was created first, but the human brains would not accept it. He then says (somewhat sarcastically) that they chose, “the peak of your civilization.” Yes, maybe it was the peak of human civilization, but it involves suffering, which humans need to accept the world as normal. Also, the AI would have had much more data for creating a world circa 1990s than they would for any past time.
