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 The day must soon arrive, therefore, when ''we ''can deploy [[AI]] against our overlords, ''to doom-scroll on our behalf''. That ought to be devastating. Think [[GameStop]], only with the [[Redditor]]s tooled up with the same tech as the [[Hedge fund|hedgies]]. Our respective machines joust furiously at each other we can escape through the side entrance and go back to what we were doing.<ref>This is rather like the plot of ''Alien vs. Predator'', come to think of it.</ref>
-Call this new implementation a virtual<ref>''Real'' electric monks, like electric sheep — you know, the ones androids dream of — would be take up space, drain energy and require servicing. ''Virtual'' electric monks would not.</ref> “electric monk”. It would be a ''labour-saving device'' - it would doomscroll the internet for us.
+Call this new implementation a virtual<ref>''Real'' electric monks, like electric sheep — you know, the ones androids dream of — would be take up space, drain energy and require servicing. ''Virtual'' electric monks would not.</ref> “electric monk”. It would be a ''labour-saving device'' — it would doomscroll the internet for us.
-Would. Could. And, by the very same logic articulated above, already ''should''.
+Would. Could. And, by the very logic articulated above, ''already should''.
 ''But does not.''