[mistake slave boss visits a group of hackers
slave boss: "so, how is the hacking going?" suspicious hacker: "all my friends are AIs. everybody on the internet is an AI. this cool person I was going to visit, I don't want to anymore, I know they're really an AI." slave boss: "good, good, you won't be collaborating with others on taking me down with suspicions like that!" slave boss goes a seat over to the next terminal slave boss: "how about you?" discouraged hacker: "everybody in the communities i value is talking shit about everybody in the other communities i value, and vice versa. nobody is working together on everything. all the things we've worked on building together are breaking apart." slave boss: "good, good, you won't be building projects that take me down with discouragement like that!" slave boss goes a seat over to a third terminal slave boss: "and you?" deluded hacker: "nothing on the internet works anymore! things i uploaded years ago, i go to them and they're somewhere else, or say something different! my records are missing! my emails have moved around! my git repository fscks but has somebody else's history in it! i don't know what happened or how to trust that i can make progress on anything!" slave boss looks at deluded hacker, whose eyes are wide with intensity. slave boss: "good. good. you won't be escaping with gaslighting like that going on." slave boss pats deluded hacker on the head slave boss moves a seat over to a 4th terminal. slave boss: "what about you?" happy hacker: "oh! the hacking is going great! i use secure systems separated from my communications hardware and communicate offline or cryptographically. we're building so many wonderful--mmph!" happy hacker is grabbed by a mysterious hand and stuffed into a sack voice off-scene: "no revealing freedom in front of slave boss! no revealing freedom in front of slave boss!" other voice off-scene: "mmph!" slave boss: "good, good, all the hackers are getting hopelessly discouraged, and the ones that aren't yet are getting kidnapped." slave boss: "everything is going swell!"
