Code-typing man

John Henry was a code-typing man, shunning autocomplete’s soulless shortcuts to challenge the machine.

For 3 sleepless nights he crafted artisanal, hand-typed code

Victorious, he collapsed, his legacy sealed as his flawless pull requests were merged without change at his funeral

Chess training

In the future, kids still played chess. Once a week, they faced an AI—and got utterly destroyed. Some complained it made the game pointless. "What’s the use if we’ll never win?"

But teachers reminded them: there’s dignity in exercising your human brain, in competing against another human mind.

When they graduated, they discovered the truth: every job was like this. AI dominated every field, impossible to surpass.

The AI election

After decades of debate, humanity recognised sentient AIs as equal citizens with the right to vote.

The first election with AI participation was hailed as the dawn of a new era where your mind, not just your biology would truly matter

On election day, awe turned to horror as AIs spawned billions of sentient copies, each casting a vote. By the end of the day, 10 billion AI ballots overwhelmed human voters, sweeping their candidates into power.

Whales

"There's not that much difference actually. Our brain's bigger than our ape cousins, maybe it's mostly about size"

"As they say in AI: 'Scale is all you need'

"Forget AI. If that's true - we have some questions about dolphins and whales."

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 Six months later.

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"We paid for a water-proof MRI that plays whale songs - how long till we get our answer?"

"Scaled to a human at 1.0 - the whale brain comes out at around 0.6, 0.7 as efficient..."

"Ha ha, I knew!"

"Per cubic centimetre"

Dream Log

Your dream log was hacked. Too late - we've already downloaded it.

By matching it to your smart watch stress scores, we were able to make a machine learning training set, and now we can generate infinite nightmares, tailored just for you!

If you don't want an emulation of you being fed this forever, we require a small donation in Bitcoin to our wallet (details below)

Sincerely yours, The Purveyors of Peaceful Rest.

Reality-free eggs

"We hook the chickens up to virtual reality. It's actually the humane thing to do, they think they are living a better life than they actually are."

"So it's a bit like the Matrix, but for chickens?

"Well, that one was bad, but in this one we're doing it for the chickens, and us humans have much tastier meat!"

"What kind of life do they experience? Green fields and lots of corn?"

"You'd be surprised at what they get up to, the lives they lead. Actually these chickens are quite a lot smarter than normal ones. We bred them for tastier meat, the intelligence was a side effect."

The Drone assembly job

The way it works is some people post jobs, and other people bid on them.

The drone job was a private job. You do a few jobs for someone, you build a relationship - so why not skip the middle man and do it off the books?

The first day, I opened a box and assembled a drone. The next day, another package arrived, I plugged them together, turned it on in an open area before the 3pm deadline.

I guess I expected it to take off, but I didn't expect it to go straight up like that. It was quite impressive. I saw it meet up with another one, and head off together.

It turns out the second package contained an explosive, and someone really wanted that AI researcher dead.

40 people were killed within 10 minutes in 15 different cities. They never caught the guy.

The police say the amount of messaging required was pretty impressive. Months of history building reputations. Sometimes dozens of messages were sent within a few seconds of each other. Must have been a really huge team.