Michael Knowles

And that's the end of the story, which is told in these journal entries.

Okay.

Why we?

Their sacred text is a timetable.

At this hour, we do this.

At this hour, we do this.

They haven't yet extirpated the two or so hours of private time that they have, but they're going to work it out.

They're going to find the perfect, rational, mathematically satisfactory way to use those hours eventually too.

and he's it stirs something in him and it's the beginnings of his imagination and his creativity you know even on the music point he says you know back in the olden days people would just spend all this time all this energy to come up with some composition that was but now you know we can do it in a heartbeat the machines can just make it and it's perfect and it's wonderful and it it is eerie reading that 100 years after it was written because that is how people talk about ai

You know, someday, oh, you just type in a prompt.

You're going to spit out something that's better than Beethoven.

Turns out when you get rid of most people, you solve hunger.

Hairy people.

You know, there were two dystopian novels that we've covered on this show that come to mind, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984.

And they take opposite approaches.

Orwell says that the totalitarian regime is going to be very oppressive and it's going to keep pleasure away from you.

And Huxley says you're going to be saturated with pleasure and drugs and sex all the time.

And our friend Mr. Zamyatin seems to cut a middle ground where nicotine is forbidden.

Can you imagine?

Horrifying dystopia.