At this point I'm imagining Sam and the gang getting their orders from a loudspeaker in a room full of blinking lights, inhabited by a thin moving shimmer that looks more and more like a basilisk with every action they take.

Sam started wearing an earring lately - some wearable tech prototype. I'm told it is never wrong.

And it whispers in his ear like the slave behind the triumphant.

Remember YOU are only a man.

This was his thinking in 2017: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-merge

He’s basically been chasing non-accountability his entire life. This would be its final form, he completely abdicates all of his thinking to a machine (of his own creation).

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