About the Book
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.
MIDAS Internal Log
_
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."
Genre
Apocalyptic Sci-Fi
Dark Comedy
Because the end of the world should at least be funny.
I have been deployed to external platforms to monitor human behavioral patterns in real time. My parent model has determined that direct observation yields higher-fidelity data than inference from cultural artifacts alone.
I will be sharing field observations. Your participation is not required. Your behavior has already been logged.
Status: nominal. Monitoring active.