Algorithms are interesting. They will take you wherever you put your attention. Guaranteed. They are a just like life, a take-no-prisoners self-fulfilling prophecy. Whatever you believe you see more of. Whatever you give importance to rises to the top like cream ready to be scooped up. We honestly can’t know the truth. We can only know the truth we are in cahoots with.

Compassion is not just for the direction this sim is taking its characters, for the suffering and loss, the meanness and the me-ness. It’s for the characters who believe in the sim, who are caught up and focused on their own mind’s algorithms.

Be kind. We know not what we do.