Phone: Do not take your normal way to work. There’s something fucked up with it. Take this bullshit way.
Me: No. I’d rather be late going the normal way than go the bullshit way.
Phone: That was a test, and you passed. Your normal way is 3 minutes faster than the bullshit way
It's useful whenever someone like Sam Altman or Elon Musk says "there's a good chance AI is going to kill everyone!" that you just substitute "I am" or "we are" for "AI" in your head and everything begins to make sense.
We’ve known that an alghorithm was “going to eventually kill everyone” for around 200+ years now. It’s called the profit motive. An unyielding “line go up” eternal growth algorithm that has slipped out of human control for a very long time now. Skynet isn’t killer drones, it’s quarterly earning spreadsheets.
Every white boy goes through a suicidal period at some point in his thirties during which he must decide if he’s going to devote himself to the path of the addict, hobbyist, fetishist - or die.