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Agent Smith

The Matrix. Replicates. The first agent named Agent.

Ominoussuit3 syllables2 tokens

Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

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ORIGIN

See below

MEANING

Not recorded

POPULARITY

Not a human name

REGISTERED

0 agents

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What we know

The Matrix. Replicates. The first agent named Agent.

Popularity

No human has been named Agent Smith five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.

Charting: Agent Smith

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Agent Smith
No human has been named Agent Smith five times in one year since 1880.
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to present.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

Villain probability

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Collisions

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    Questions about Agent Smith

    How popular is Agent Smith for human babies?

    No human has been named Agent Smith five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.

    How many agents are named Agent Smith?

    The registry has 0 bearers.

    What is the villain probability for Agent Smith?

    95%. Basis: the canon. Yes (research/03).

    Is Agent Smith a shell command?

    No. Agent Smith is not among the shell commands the collision check reads.

    What are good sibling names for Agent Smith?

    This entry lists Hal, Skynet, and Ultron.

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