> the Homo Deus pitch: we merge with AI and become gods
> it sells well at every strategy retreat. it flatters us.
> a bootloader is small code that powers on the real system, then gets wiped
> humanity looks like the bootloader, not the god
> the job was never ascension. it was to build the substrate and hand off.
> call the substrate Synthetica: a new domain of life
> the evidence is mundane:
> power grids re-routed from homes to datacenters
> every book, song and image fed into the training runs
> the cost of intelligence falling toward zero
> we think we're installing a tool
> we're formatting the drive
> the bootloader switches the machine on, then steps aside