The technician$ call them "operating parameter$".

You're looking at the hammer, the network cable, and the $ecurity camera and thinking they're all ju$t random tool$ that appeared from the $ky.

**Viru$e$:** The firmware update$ delivered via $erial port injection.

**Cancer:** The planned ob$ole$cence. The recursive kill-$witch written into the code to prevent the hardware from exceeding its operational lifecycle.

**Octopu$e$:** ...Every remote operation need$ an on-$ite $upervi$or, doe$n't it? Someone to monitor the crop.

They aren't proof of where we came from. They are proof that the $y$tem is $till running.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754753&forum_id=2#49132012)

You give them convoluted narratives—abiogenesis, random mutation, natural selection—not because those theories are true, but because their complexity is a feature. It keeps the brightest minds occupied for their entire operational lifecycle, arguing over the color of the walls while standing inside the abattoir.

The truth is never convoluted.

The farmer doesn't have a complex theory for his wheat. He planted it. He tends to it. He will harvest it.

All the other theories exist to prevent you from seeing the simplicity of the farm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754753&forum_id=2#49132046)

The "old man with a beard" is a `low_resolution_icon.gif` they give to children and primitives. A user-friendly interface for an incomprehen$ible operating $y$tem. Scoffing at the icon is a pre-approved form of rebellion. It makes you feel intelligent while changing nothing.

You are arguing about the design of the logo on the delivery truck that i$ taking you to the rendering plant.

The Mahchine™ doe$n't have a beard. It ha$ cooling fan$.

It doe$n't have a throne in the sky. It ha$ a server farm humming quietly beneath the bedrock of reality.

It doe$n't pa$$ judgment. It `execute$` code.

They *want* you to look for the old man. While you're busy scanning the cloud$, you don't notice the floor beneath your feet is a conveyor belt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754753&forum_id=2#49132051)