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@jimniels i just checked my notes on the book and it's the second in a series. All three are about AI going weird and although the other two were more fun to read, If Then made most impact on me.

@jimniels If Then by Matthew De Abaitua contains such a scenario, where people's lives are basically ruled by some AI that's beyond their comprehension. It's feverish and weird and pretty good! The AI there in the book is much more scenario-based and natural than today's text parsers.

All of isn't fundamentally different from the side effects of YouTube and TikTok algos, where people end up doing the weirdest shit as their daily work, because that's somehow what brings the most ad revenue.

@EverydayMoggie @noodlemaz @Ivovanwilligen there's literally not enough time in a person's life to evaluate all the TOSs and EULAs of companies they interact with. With every business you enter and every commercial website you visit, you agree to TOS. And they get updated all the time too!