Counterweight Quotes

“No matter how we try to prevent it, corporations like LK are destined to become one giant AI. In a hundred years, whole countries will likely meet the same fate. Humans may try to live according to free will, but we’re all fated to disappear into the bowels of an AI behemoth. This is the future that awaits us, even if we try to resist. The only thing we can do here is buy a little time to adjust.”
― Djuna, Counterweight

“By then, human beings will do nothing productive at all. They’ll just be lumps of desires. Andrei Kostomaryov says he’s going to keep punching out those tin cans of his and fill the solar system with a hundred billion humans, but what are we going to do with so many of them? Our desires are basic and tedious.”
― Djuna, Counterweight

“Should the creation of a zoo with a hundred billion space monkeys be the ultimate goal of our species?”
― Djuna, Counterweight

“These people will soon realize they’re all puppets of the company AI. Such is the worth of humanity’s free will in the coming era.”
― Djuna, Counterweight

“When AI began participating in creative tasks, the speed of change and diversity of thought increased exponentially. President Han once said that the role of human beings, in the near future, would be to boost the machine civilization that’s on its way.”
― Djuna, Counterweight