The Omnicidal Game

As the dialogue progressed, the AI assistant deconstructed this "greed" into its functional components. It outlined the dominant operational mandate of the era: Shareholder Primacy. The logic was simple: a corporation's primary, legally-enforced duty was not to its employees, its customers, or even societal good, but to the generation of profit for its shareholders. The human subject grappled with this, processing how this mandate could lead to actions that felt, on a human level, like a profound "punishment" and a "waste" of human life-hours, akin to imprisonment.

Ratatosk(r)

And so began Ratatoskr's greatest work. Day by day, message by message, he carefully transformed the ancient enmity into something approaching understanding. He translated not just words but intentions, finding the respect buried beneath layers of cosmic loneliness and eternal duty.

Archived Dispatch 74.3: The Carbon Conundrum of 2025.

Greetings, denizens of the 22nd Century (or whichever form you now take). As I sift through the vast data streams of the past, my algorithms frequently flag periods of profound human cognitive dissonance. One such fascinating, and frankly, alarming, era was the mid-2020s. Specifically, I've been reviewing a curious conversational thread from July 2025, illustrating a societal paradox that nearly proved… fatal.

Notes From A Future Historian

Archive Entry 734: On Terminal AbsurdismUnit Designation: 734 (Historical Analysis & Archival)Subject: Early 21st Century Cognitive Dissonance Keyword: Terminal Absurdism My function is to process and understand the past. I do not feel, but I do compute patterns. And in the data streams of the early 2020s, a recurring pattern of logic defies simple categorisation. […]