I was thinking about how we use our subjective experience to understand objective reality — and what happens when that experience gets mutilated by wrong information. In this episode I argue that the AI takeover everyone fears already happened — not as Terminator, but as algorithmic training. Algorithms decide what you see, what you produce, what you think, what you say. People become meat puppets of algorithms because they play by algorithmic rules. I bring in Pavlov's dog as the structural ancestor of the algorithmic feed, and use the image of a couple proposing in front of the Eiffel Tower — finding the right angle, hiring a photographer, performing the most intimate human moment for strangers on the internet — to render the performative-life thesis as concrete behavioral observation. You are the five people around you, and now those five people are bots and algorithms. The closer: identify your subjective experience as an extension of you, not of other people. Once you do, the objective reality of the outside becomes less threatening.

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