Oh, I parsed it as a single misaligned AI, which purchased us from the society we had built. It became a more effective market actor than anything else, it reaped the reward, and then it bought us.

I was going to write something like this a few years ago. This is better than that would have been: thanks for making it.

I have a lot of feelings about this, but they're mostly the same feelings the story expresses, so there's not actually much point in me repeating them here.

I guess, good luck out there, everyone.

Good post! This is definitely the approach I use for these things, and it's one of the most frequently-useful tools in my toolkit.

Ok so this is an old comment but apparently nobody responded to it, so: Tons of connections from the brain to the body are swapped. The left arm, leg, and many other things but importantly the left ear are all connected to the right hemisphere.

So, while I'm not certain as to what's happening here, it briefly waking up the damaged revolutionary module is much more likely than you seem to assume, here.

Hope that helps! 

I think you accidentally a digit when editing this. It now says "7% accuracy".

my two cents on the fingertip marks thing: it definitely happens, but normal amounts of practice and play don't generally cause them to last very long. if you see them, it's very good evidence that the person plays a string instrument, but you're not that likely to see them, so absence isn't good evidence to the contrary.

Conservatives do this, but so do leftists, so all you really learn is that they're not a democrat. And even then, it's not that strong evidence.

In a similar vein, I have only ever seen the term "classical liberal" used by people who identify with the term.

Oh, also it looks like you forgot to finish your sentence in the astrology section.

In-line with lace code is flagging, which has also mostly fallen out of use recently, and is not really done by gay youth these days, but you'll still sometimes see it with older folks. Notably, to my knowledge, it has somewhat less geographic variation in colors than the lace code stuff does (though there still is some).