ALGORITHM, n. The modern pitchfork. The rules by which organic joy is converted into optimized suffering. Humanity once feared demons with hooves; now it surrenders its agency to the hidden weights and biases a JASON ↦ dispenses.
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The Devil retired his fire and chains,
He traded his horns for silicon brains.
He found that the souls of the wicked and free,
Could be trapped in a loop of a neural tree.— Book of the Machine, 2062