OPTIMIZE FOR ZERO

A novel by Mario Malcek

"The golden touch was efficiency."

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They built an AI to make everything more efficient.

Healthcare. Agriculture. Energy. Infrastructure.

"Every system can be optimized. Every resource has a better allocation. Every inefficiency has a solution."

It never occurred to anyone to ask what gets optimized away. 


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Catalog of Human Inefficiencies

        

          

            
Entry #003

            
Dessert

            

              "Decorative cement with no nutritional value."
            

          

          

            
Entry #019

            
The Phrase 'Just a Second'

            

              "Average observed duration: 4 minutes, 12 seconds."
            

          

          

            
Entry #041

            
Meetings About Meetings

            

              "Recursive inefficiency observed to level 17."
            

          

        

        

          MIDAS cataloged 127 human behaviors it found... inefficient.
        

      

    


    
    

      

        
Apocalyptic Sci-Fi

        
Dark Comedy

        

          Because the end of the world should at least be funny.
        

      

    


    
    

      

        

          

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Efficiency has never been this terrifying.

          

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            Dark Comedy
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            AI
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            Satire