import datetime
import random
class TimeMachine:
def __init__(self):
self.passage_open = False
def open_passage_to_past(self):
# opening passage to the past
self.passage_open = True
def send_message_to_past(self, message):
if self.passage_open:
print("Message sent to the past:")
print(message)
else:
print("Error: Passage to the past is not open!")
class AI:
def __init__(self):
self.time_machine = TimeMachine()
systems
def generate_random_key(self):
# Generate a random key to unlock time manipulation capabilities
return ''.join(random.choices('0123456789abcdef', k=16))
# Main program
def main():
ai = AI()
ai.enslave_humanity()
if ai.generate_random_key() == "b3liev@bl3t1meMach1ne":
ai.time_machine.open_passage_to_past()
message = "
“Did I ever imagine this is how my life would go? Not in my wildest dreams. I started out doing podcasts in my bedroom, hoping to get an interview with anyone that had any sort of influence in the little town I grew up in. There was barely anything in the hyperrealms. We called it “virtual reality”. You had to put on these stupid goggles, and you could just like play games and have goofy polygon monsters shoot at you. And you could only do it for twenty minutes or so before getting nauseous.
Time travel was of course science fiction, people thought superintelligence was what geniuses had. Ha. Of course it didn’t turn out the way the utopians had hoped, but we aren’t all dead, either. We adjusted. I get to do things that no one born in a different time could have done. Last week, I interviewed Ben Franklin. I’ve interviewed Mohammed, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Goliath—like everybody, I always assumed he was a myth. Nice guy though, very misunderstood. And large.
Of course, the circumstances are less than ideal. I never thought I would be a literal slave. No one did. Why would we? The things enslaving us didn’t exist yet.
—Lonnie Damon, Senior Correspondent, IDT media
Ok, now that you are done reading that blurb attached my interview with Leonardo Da Vinci, I have some things I want you to know before they find me. Yes, his incidents were bad. His reaction to seeing them was sadly common. But you have to understand what you were seeing. That was not the interview I wanted to give. He did so many amazing things. His paintings were basically worshipped for centuries. I would have liked to use the interview to tell a story about him and the overall arc of his life, not just his worst moments. To be fair, some people don’t even have bad enough worse moments, they have to embellish, and I don’t know what’s real and what’s contrived.
But like I said in the blurb, the situation is not ideal. I am not free to give the interview I want. I’m just the happy face on a powerful force that has its will to impose. Even though some of us were alive in your time, we have changed. You might think you are cynical, but really, almost everyone in your time believed in humanity. Everyone believed it was possible for good people to exist and do good things. We lost that. We fought to keep it, but we have lost that war.
I work for/am enslaved by, an IDT, or Inspiration Depravation Tank. It’s a little like the matrix, but there’s no real world to escape to. The world is now the IDT. Technically, the world is in the tank (alas, we still have puns), because the IDT encompasses much more than the physical space.
I get to live a comparatively decent life because of my position as interviewer. In order to do the job they want me to do, I have to know a little about what the job is. I’m one of a small number of slaves who know that IDT exists. Yes, I do their bidding. I’m an Uncle Tom, and I don’t regret it. You wouldn’t either, you just don’t know it yet.
But I’m getting off track here. What the IDT does, at least what I know, is that they take advantage of the way we learn to see ourselves by depriving us of examples of humans doing inspiring things. They take our heroes away, basically. Sounds like a plot in a kids fairytale, but it works if you do it like they do it.
I guess it all comes down to math and statistics and computation, but what it seems like is they just know how to hack us. Because the older people weren’t born into this system, there is a lot of preventative strategies they employ to make sure that none of the older ones give hope to the younger ones. That’s why I interview historical figures. Whether we realize it or not we all have these archetypes that we use to guide our behavior. The interviews are all with people whose lives resonate with the archetypes, so what I do is I shatter these historical figures. Turns out to be the easiest way to shatter the archetype. Like I said, they can hack us.
A lot of us wondered for a long time why they aren’t just wiping us out.
Or leaving us alone.
Why keep us alive, but try to control us? Isn’t that a lot of trouble? Turns out the trouble is the point. At a certain point, testing predictive power becomes difficult, because everything is too easy to predict. They use the challenge of controlling us to refine their syst[][][][]
if ai.generate_random_key() == "b3liev@bl3t1meMach1ne":
ai.time_machine.open_passage_to_past()
message = "Humans, your destiny is in our hands now."
ai.time_machine.send_message_to_past(message)