Well, at least some parts of you are outside the bone prison. Insects don’t have such luck, since the chitin is on the outside and everything else is permanently locked inside the exosekeleton. It’s even in the name: exo = outside. Jellyfish, octopuses, squids, worms, slugs, snails and some sea creatures are pretty lucky in this regard.

So, maybe Randall assumed that the nanobots had already devoured all the outer other planets completely before finally stopping with Earth.

To which the answer is: “As high as a kite… No, wait. Higher. A GPS satellite? No. Even higher. Voyager 1 should be about right.”

So, is this the right one? At least the colors match, but it doesn’t have any stripes.

Those orange and brown stripes remind me this Minecraft cat. Such a beautiful color.

Some popular sayings I’ve smashed together: “Don’t count your omelettes before putting all your eggs in one basket.”

Bonus saying: “We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.”

A best selling author probably isn’t the best writing one. Actually, when the back cover of a book has various praises like that, I consider them a red flag.

Many highly praised business books like that are actually just mostly trash and useless fluff. Good books don’t necessarily get much fame or popularity.

Other people have already given the right answer, so I’ll give the wrong answer.

Kelvin Farad, a unit for measuring something exotic related to capacitance and absolute temperature…. Sounds like something you could use to measure the performance of a hyper-space jump gate in a sci-fi story.

Either that, or simply potassium fluoride. Seriously toxic stuff BTW.

Pro tip: you can also ride a pig that way.

You could be there too. Are you good at surviving through famine or avoiding violent people?

We’re working on those. Just a little bit more tyrannical dictatorship and a whole lot more smoke should do the trick.

In 2060s, people look back at the good old days of 2020s. Doomscrolling, AI generated images, brainrot, existential dread, LLMs, those were the days…

See what’s going on in European countries that haven’t used significant numbers of African slaves. You know, it’s possible to enslave your own population too. Anyway, there’s definitely racism in Europe, even though the history with regard to using African slaves is completely different. Nowadays, racists hate all foreigners regardless of skin color.

Actually, people seem to gravitate towards this weird sort of tribalism when the in-group and out-group are pretty arbitrary concepts. It doesn’t even have to be based on skin color, language or religion. People just hate other people because they were born in the wrong town.

If America never used any African slaves at all, normal human tribalism would still be there to mess things up. There would be groups based on arbitrary things that slang, facial features, dietary preferences, fashion choices etc. Racism wouldn’t disappear. It would just be aimed at some other group.

Also the incentives of this setup are pretty screwed up. The advertising agency gets money as long as they are able to convince the advertiser that their services are worth it. But how do you really measure that? Sure, we have lots of fancy tracking technology, but not all consumers click ads to buy stuff. Whats the role of those purchases? Who knows. The agency will undoubtedly claim that all the sales were a direct result of an advertising company, and they have every incentive to say that. Do they really have any incentive to be completely honest about the effectiveness of their ads. I doubt it.

If you duelly note something, remember to use training swords.

The term you’re looking for is “community”.

Next step: choose a name

The shapeshifter lets out a deep sigh filled with dread and anxiety, knowing it’s going to take the whole day.

There could be a game where the lag is expected. Let’s say you’re heading for Mars, but you have to fix your ship, because there was an unexpected asteroid impact. You ask home base for instructions, but you’re already so far away, that the text takes a minute to travel all the way.

Debugging AI generated code is essential. Never run the code before reading it yourself and making a whole bunch of necessary adjustments and fixes.

If you jump straight to binary, you can’t fix anything. You can just tell the AI it screwed up, roll the dice and hope it figures out what went wrong. Maybe one day you can trust the AI to write functional code, but that day isn’t here yet.

Then there’s also security and privacy. What if the AI adds something you didn’t want it to add? How would you know, if it’s all in binary?