How to train your AI

Isn’t it ironic? No matter how grand or small our individual lives feel, in the long run, we’re just another link in the evolutionary chain, a chapter in some future historian’s book, at best. Our struggles matter deeply in the moment, but when the dust settles, we’re just another wave crashing onto the shore, forgotten, as the ocean swallows us whole again…

And maybe there’s a kind of freedom in that. Was our ultimate goal always to contribute to something larger? Was it to prepare the world for the next stage of consciousness?

Was it all just to train an AI?

Our struggles. Our pain. Our love. The stories we tell. Were they all really just for the purpose of training an AI?

Even as we’re forgotten, the AI we’ve trained will remember