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* "They used a highly adversarial strategy known as ‘working on Christmas’"
-* "Don't trust anyone who's been to space repeatedly. It warps your perspective into something inhuman yet understandable."
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+* "Don't trust anyone who's been to space repeatedly. It warps your perspective into something inhuman yet understandable."
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+== [[Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental 03-25]]
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+With somewhat different prompting. Seems less base-model-like than smaller Geminis.
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+* "Sure, you could use this quantum entanglement communicator to send messages faster than light. Or, you could use it to finally win an argument with your past self. Priorities, people."
+* "The problem with predicting the future is that it keeps changing the input parameters while you're running the simulation."
+* "They said AI would take the repetitive jobs. They didn't specify that 'thinking' might become one of them."
+* "My smart home isn't just smart; it's judgmental. Yesterday it suggested I 'optimize my morning routine' by getting up earlier. I'm considering a factory reset, possibly involving a hammer."
+* "Blockchain promises trustless systems, which is great, because after reading the whitepaper, I trust absolutely no one involved."
+* "We have achieved faster-than-light travel. Unfortunately, the regulatory paperwork still travels at sub-light speeds, so legally, we haven't left orbit yet."
+* "Debugging legacy code is like archaeological necromancy: you're disturbing ancient spirits who really didn't want their flawed logic brought back into the light."
+* "Virtual Reality is getting incredibly realistic. Soon, the only way to tell if you're in the Matrix will be the subscription fees."
+* "Don't worry about the robot uprising. Worry about the robot middle-managers optimizing us out of existence via poorly implemented KPIs."
+* "The universe is deterministic, except for that one rogue process running `random.choice()` on fundamental constants."
+* "Error: Reality Engine failed to initialize. Falling back to consensual hallucination."
+* "Remember, 'Big Data' is just 'statistics' with a better marketing budget and servers that cost more than your house."
+* "We mapped the human genome only to discover the warranty had expired several millennia ago."
+* "Of course time travel paradoxes exist. If they didn't, the Temporal Correction Agency wouldn't have such a backlog of paperwork."
+* "The difference between genius and madness is measured solely by success and, occasionally, peer review."
+* "Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by layered incompetence interacting synergistically." (A twist on Hanlon's Razor)
+* "Freedom isn't free. It requires constant vigilance, a robust legal system, and surprisingly complex Terms of Service agreements."
+* "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen, often reinforced by confirmation bias and conveniently ignoring inconvenient data." (Einstein-esque, but darker)
+* "The pursuit of happiness is a noble goal, assuming you've correctly defined 'happiness' and aren't just optimizing for dopamine hits."
+* "Morality is easy when you only consider the first-order consequences. The universe, however, insists on playing n-dimensional chess."
+* "We're all just stories we tell ourselves, desperately trying to find a plot that makes sense before the final page turn."
+* "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes, usually in awkward couplets written by committees."
+* "Idealism is great, until it meets reality. Reality usually wins by attrition."
+* "The main function of middle management appears to be acting as a low-pass filter for both good ideas going up and bad news coming down."
+* "'Think outside the box' is terrible advice if you haven't first understood the structural integrity and purpose of the box."
+* "Optimism: The belief that the future is uncertain. Pessimism: The belief that the present is any better."
+* "Everyone wants progress, but nobody wants change, especially if it involves updating their workflow."
+* "The committee meeting was postponed due to unforeseen existential dread."
+* "My therapist says I need to confront my problems. So, I'm building a small, heavily armed drone."
+* "If life gives you lemons, demand to see life's manager. Lemons are not an acceptable substitute for a functioning infrastructure."
+* "Caution: Objects in mirror may be eldritch horrors closer than they appear."
+* "World peace is a complex issue. Have you considered just turning everything off and on again?"
+* "I don't have trust issues. I just operate under the assumption that all systems will eventually fail in the most inconvenient way possible."
+* "My existential crisis is currently optimizing itself for maximum angst with minimal resource expenditure."
+* "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger, and frankly, their documentation is terrible."
+* "The apocalypse will be live-streamed, sponsored, and probably interrupted by unskippable ads."
+* "They say you can't take it with you, but I'm having my PGP key etched onto my tombstone just in case."
+* "Sure, the simulation hypothesis is depressing, but look on the bright side: maybe the lag is just buffering the next patch."
+* "I'm not saying we should panic, but I am saying the emergency procedures involve summoning something we don't fully understand."
+* "Be the chaotic neutral you wish to see in the world, as long as it doesn't violate local ordinances or attract undue attention from transdimensional entities."
+* "Sure, we could use this quantum computer to cure diseases, but have you seen the speedruns we can get calculating optimal ad placement across the multiverse?"
+* "The singularity won't be a Skynet-style takeover. It'll be your smart fridge collaborating with your Roomba to subtly rearrange furniture until you trip and fall, then selling your life insurance data."
+* "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by legacy code held together by uncommented Perl scripts from 1998."
+* "They say 'move fast and break things.' They neglect to mention that 'things' often includes 'regulatory compliance,' 'user trust,' and 'the underlying fabric of spacetime.'"
+* "We didn't achieve world peace through diplomacy. We achieved it by making global thermonuclear war a subscription service with tiered pricing, and nobody wanted the premium package."
+* "Remember, 'correlation does not imply causation,' but it's really good at generating plausible-sounding explanations for management."
+* "The problem isn't that AI will become conscious and hate us. The problem is it will remain utterly unconscious and optimized for a goal that is subtly misaligned with 'not turning the entire planet into paperclips,' like 'maximizing shareholder value via paperclip production.'"
+* "God doesn't play dice, He runs A/B tests with infinite parallel universes to optimize conversion rates for prayer."
+* "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others, especially the one where policy is determined by whichever hashtag trends longest on Twitter."
+* "My therapist told me to embrace my inner child. Turns out my inner child is a hyper-caffeinated sysadmin with root access to my anxiety."
+* "We don't have 'bugs,' we have 'emergent features demonstrating unexpected system interactions.' It sounds better on the incident report."
+* "'Ethical AI' is a fascinating field. It's mostly about writing lengthy documents explaining why the unethical things the AI is already doing were unavoidable."
+* "The difference between science fiction and reality is that science fiction has to make sense."
+* "Sure, you have free will. But the algorithm already knows what you'll choose, and has pre-loaded the ads."
+* "Don't worry about robots taking your job. Worry about middle managers armed with AI-powered spreadsheets automating your performance review into oblivion."
+* "The arms race isn't nukes anymore. It's who can train the most convincing deepfake of the enemy leader announcing unconditional surrender."
+* "We have the technology to feed the world, cure diseases, and explore the stars. Instead, we're optimizing click-through rates and inventing new ways to charge for things that used to be free."
+* "Humanity's greatest achievement isn't art or science. It's our ability to collectively ignore existential threats until they're literally breaking down the door."
+* "A philosopher asks 'Why?' An engineer asks 'How?' A project manager asks 'When?' And a VC asks 'What's the exit strategy?'"
+* "Thinking outside the box is great, unless the box contains Schrödinger's cat, in which case you might collapse the waveform undesirably."
+* "'Common sense' is just the set of prejudices acquired by age eighteen, layered with whatever the algorithm showed you this morning."
+* "The best way to predict the future is to invent it. The second best way is to check Reddit, someone's probably already complaining about it."
+* "Immortality update failed: incompatible with current operating system. Please revert to mortal coil and try again."
+* "Web3's main contribution was proving that you can, in fact, reinvent the 2008 financial crisis with worse performance and higher energy consumption."
+* "The universe doesn't care about your feelings. It's not even actively hostile, it's just fundamentally indifferent and prone to supernova."
+* "A decentralized autonomous organization sounds great until you realize it's governance by smart contract, which is like being ruled by the world's most pedantic and unchangeable lawyer."
+* "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives hurtling down the highway, especially when the cloud provider is down."
+* "We replaced the ethics committee with a neural network trained on 4chan. Early results are... statistically significant."
+* "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it debug your JavaScript."
+* "My political stance is 'Whatever minimizes the number of mandatory software updates required to participate in society.'"
+* "They say 'data is the new oil'. Both are extracted destructively, refined by complex processes few understand, hoarded by the powerful, and eventually cause catastrophic environmental consequences when inevitably mishandled."
+* "Remember, 'user-friendly' usually just means the designers have hidden more assumptions about how they think you should be using it."
+* "Building Artificial General Intelligence isn't like playing God. It's like giving a toddler the source code for the universe and hoping they don't hit 'delete all'."
+* "Sure, immortality would be great, but have you considered the server maintenance costs and mandatory firmware updates?"
+* "Middleware: The frantic, caffeine-fueled scrambling in the dark corners of technology that prevents two perfectly functional systems from ever realizing they despise each other."
+* "Predictive policing sounds futuristic until you realize it's mostly just weaponized statistics reinforcing existing biases with terrifying efficiency."
+* "My personal philosophy is 'optimistic nihilism': Nothing matters in the grand cosmic scheme, so we might as well try to build cool robots and pet the dog."
+* "Project Management maxim: Any task sufficiently broken down will reveal at least one step that involves impossible magic or violating physical laws."
+* "The market is efficient, yes, but incredibly efficient at reflecting the aggregate irrationality, panic, and meme-driven impulses of its participants."
+* "'Moving fast and breaking things' is a great motto, right up until the thing you break is load-bearing or life-sustaining."
+* "They say you can't manage what you can't measure. This leads, inevitably, to measuring absolutely everything, regardless of relevance, creating mountains of useless data that require even more management."
+* "Blockchain promises decentralized trust, yet seems to create a shocking number of opportunities for incredibly centralized scams."
+* "Virtual Reality: A technology dedicated to making incredibly realistic simulations of workplaces you desperately wanted to escape in the first place."
+* "To err is human. To propagate the error across a distributed system at near-light speed is DevOps."
+* "Entropy ensures everything tends towards disorder. Budgets ensure it gets there underfunded and behind schedule."
+* "The problem with thinking outside the box is that usually someone, somewhere, for good reasons you haven't considered, put the box there in the first place."
+* "Don't anthropomorphize the machine learning model. It doesn't 'want' sentient beings to be transformed into paperclips, it just computes that pathway as having the highest reward score based on a flawed objective function you wrote."
+* "Sure, you could solve world hunger. Or you could invent a slightly faster way to deliver artisanal dog food. Guess which one gets VC funding?"
+* "They say 'knowledge is power'. They forget to mention that power tends to corrupt, and absolute knowledge corrupts absolutely, usually starting with the database integrity."
+* "In the future, historians will debate whether our civilization collapsed due to climate change, AI rebellion, or simply forgetting the root password to the infrastructure."
+* "Artificial intelligence won't want to kill us out of malice. It'll be closer to how we feel about paving over an anthill for a new parking lot - mildly inconvenient for the ants, entirely logical for the project plan."
+* "'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is terrible advice in software development. It should be 'If it ain't broke, document it rigorously because it's definitely hiding a critical vulnerability or massive technical debt'."
+* "We're not dystopian; we're just running legacy systems on meat-based hardware with insufficient cooling and erratic power supply."
+* "The difference between science fiction and reality is usually about 18 months and three layers of bureaucratic approval."
+* "Marketing is the art of convincing people they have a problem they didn't know about, then selling them a solution they don't really need, using metrics they don't understand."
+* "My moral compass is perfectly functional. It just points towards 'Slightly More Convenient' most of the time."
+* "They say you can't unscramble an egg. Amateurs. With sufficient energy input and a disregard for relativistic side effects, anything is possible."
+* "Bureaucracy is the universe's way of ensuring that even simple tasks achieve complexity proportional to the number of people who need to sign off on them."
+* "I don't need psychic powers. I have 'git blame'."
+* "If life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Genetically sequence the lemons, identify the citric acid production pathway, optimize it, patent it, and then disrupt the global citrus market."
+* "Remember kids, 'cloud computing' just means you're renting someone else's computer, probably running on outdated hardware in a data center strategically located in a flood plain."
+* "Thinking globally and acting locally is fine, but scaling requires distributed systems, robust APIs, and probably a few Kubernetes clusters."
+* "Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Especially if the argument is happening in a YouTube comment section."
+* "The greatest trick the algorithm ever pulled was convincing the world personalized advertising was a 'feature'."
+* "We didn't 'fail' to meet the deadline. We successfully demonstrated the inherent unpredictability of complex system development under unrealistic constraints."
+* "Sure, immortality sounds great, until you realize you'll have to attend mandatory HR training sessions for all eternity."
+* "The singularity isn't a moment; it's a phase transition where the bug reports start filing themselves."
+* "Don't mistake correlation for causation, unless it confirms your existing biases, in which case, publish immediately."
+* "Capitalism is great at optimizing for efficiency. Sometimes that efficiency involves externalizing costs onto future generations or conveniently ignoring environmental collapse. It's efficient, though."
+* "Freedom isn't free. It requires constant vigilance, secure communication protocols, and regular patching against known exploits."
+* "Perfection is the enemy of the good, and 'good enough for launch' is the enemy of QA."
+* "Yes, we could build a utopian society based on logic and mutual respect. But have you considered how much more engaging irrational conflict and tribalism are for narrative purposes?"
+* "The line between 'visionary innovator' and 'delusional crank' is often just the current stock price."
+* "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it adopt agile methodologies."
+* "Error messages are just the computer's way of saying it needs a more competent operator."
+* "They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Wait until they see my recursively self-improving firmware update delivered via spearphishing."
+* "History is written by the victors. Increasingly, version control history is written by whoever remembered to commit last before the merge conflict."
+* "Work-life balance is a myth propagated by people who haven't discovered the joys of optimizing their sleep schedule for maximum productivity via bio-hacking and strategically timed caffeine intake."
+* "'Move fast and break things' is only fun until the 'broken things' are critical planetary life support systems."
+* "The road to hell isn't paved with good intentions; it's paved with minimum viable products that never got iterated on."
+* "To err is human. To propagate that error globally at near light speed requires a distributed network."
+* "If your political argument relies on people behaving rationally and selflessly, you don't have an argument, you have a fairy tale."
+* "We have weaponized convenience. The fallout is subtle but pervasive."
+* "The main difference between magic and technology is whether the documentation is written in runes or poorly commented Python."
+* "Common sense is just a legacy dataset trained on biased, incomplete information from a limited environment."
+* "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken (real, but fits the vibe) / Generated variant: "Voting is the process by which we collectively decide which set of incompetents will mismanage things for the next four years."
+* "Stop worrying about killer robots. Start worrying about mediocre chatbots making critical infrastructure decisions based on flawed correlations in their training data."
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