Please add a load balancer too. I hope we can have an interface like amazon ec2, but for brains

That would have been a somewhat less ridiculous explanation for The Matrix. "Oh, those vats full of humans? They're our neural network cloud".

Yes, and considering that The Fall of Hyperion was published in 1990, that scenario should have been obvious to the Wachowskis.

It was actually what they intended, before the execs told them audiences wouldn't understand it.

Not surprising, considering I had relatively techie friends that were absolutely mindblown by concepts like pervasive virtual reality (never mind taking the next step beyond the Matrix to "uploading"). I was utterly taken aback at the realisation of just how foreign ideas like that were to people that weren't steeped in SF.

"Humans are used as batteries."

"Humans are used as computer chips."

Neither statement really makes any sense without some creative thinking. Execs are weird.

That postulates that everyone's brain is worth simulating.

In the beginning, only the most "valuable" neural mappings will be worth the computing time required to simulate them. And rights! Does a simulated neural network of a human being have the same rights as a human being? One couldn't argue that simply because the underlying processor is silicon-based instead of carbon-based rights are lost.

Many philosophical questions to answer.

Or spin up an instance with the 'lazyness' region deactivated.