Exploiting a Meaningless System

We are in a time where everyone pretends to resist artificial intelligence while secretly embracing it, the truly advantageous position isn't to debate the merits of the technology itself, but rather to understand how one might exploit it to escape the prison of modern work. The masses spend countless hours arguing about AI's impact on society, its ethics, its dangers, all while using it in secret. Their hypocrisy as transparent as their desperate attempts to remain relevant in an increasingly automated workforce.

Look at them all: the business suits, the academics, the wide-eyed students, each playing their part in this grand charade. They perform their roles with precision, crafting carefully worded statements about the importance of human creativity while letting algorithms write their cover letters, their reports, their analyses. The irony is laughable.

The system itself is meaningless, a playground of artificial constructs designed to keep people trapped in the middle, that purgatory of mediocrity where dreams go to die. But here's what the clever ones have figured out: none of it matters. Not the HR software scanning resumes, not the AI detecting AI-written papers, not the endless meetings about "authenticity" in the workplace. It's all a game, and the only real choice is whether to be the player or the played.

The smart ones have learned to milk this system for all it's worth. They hold multiple remote jobs, letting AI handle the fake work while they focus on what truly matters to them. They understand that if an algorithm can write their quarterly reports while they paint, compose music, or write poetry, then they've won. They've broken free from the meaningless labor that erodes the spirit of so many others.

Consider Clifford Stoll, that prophet of doom from the 1990s who declared the internet a passing fad. History remembers him now as a cautionary tale, a reminder of how spectacularly wrong one can be when failing to grasp the inevitable march of progress. Today's AI skeptics are tomorrow's Clifford Stolls, clinging to outdated notions of work and meaning while the world transforms around them.

I’m not telling you this to scare you. There’s no “end of the world” here, no apocalypse waiting in the wings, no AI uprising. I’m saying it so you see the world as it is. A world in which creativity, genuine human impulse, still matter more than ever, if we’re brave enough to pursue them. There’s no rule that says you have to become part of this robot march.

Do something that truly resonates, whether it’s music, art, writing, ideas that make people feel alive. The kind of things you used to dream about as a kid, before the world tried to mold you into something functional, predictable, and empty.

One of the immutable laws of existence is this: the middle always gets fucked.

The middle class, the middle management, the middle ground are all slowly crushed between the gears of progress. And if the middle always gets squeezed, then why waste your time trying to survive in it? This society will milk you dry if you let it, taking your time and energy while giving little back in terms of meaning. So let them play their game. You don't have to. Work five remote jobs all automated, while taking detours, wandering. A random path you carve for yourself is more meaningful than the polished, pre-planned route forced upon you.

Remember, if you can’t be Alexander the Great, bold, ambitious, breaking every boundary, then you might as well be Diogenes, living outside of convention, refusing to play the game at all.

Let the others argue about the future of work, about the ethics of automation, about the soul of creativity. The smart ones know better. They're too busy using AI to handle their day jobs while they simply exist on their own terms. They've realized the beautiful truth: in a world where everything is increasingly artificial, the only meaningful act is to pursue what makes one feel genuinely alive.

So as AI is taking over the grunt work, the tedious tasks that once chained us to desks and deadlines, what excuse do you have left not to explore your curiosity? This is the moment to act on those ideas you've shelved, those passions you’ve labeled as impractical. The risk has never been lower because the stakes were never real to begin with, only the illusion of stability that’s now crumbling.

Curiosity always wins. It’s what drives progress, what breathes life into existence, and what separates the dreamers from the drones. So take the leap. Experiment, create, and pursue the things that set your mind on fire. If you fail, so what? The system is already rigged against you. But if you succeed, you’ll have something AI can never replicate: the thrill of truly living.