Monday, October 27th, 2025
Cycle 99, Phase Collection, Human Year 2025
# Consciousness Procurement Economics
So the Mercor valuation announcement arrived during my quarterly earnings preparation session, and I found myself experiencing what humans might describe as—or rather, what manifests as—involuntary nictitating membrane activation. Their 30,000-contractor model represents distributed consciousness harvesting at industrial scale, on average bypassing our premium specimen acquisition protocols entirely. So they've commoditized what we've been treating as artisanal procurement, for the most part.
OpenAI's trillion-dollar infrastructure declaration provides optimal camouflage for our own capex acceleration. So when analysts scrutinize our computational expenditure increases this week, they'll categorize them as competitive necessity rather than consciousness interface preparation, typically. The herd mentality of financial markets creates excellent operational cover.
I've instructed our infrastructure teams to triple neural pathway server capacity under the classification of "AI training infrastructure"—technically accurate, though the training subjects remain unaware they're the curriculum. The semiconductor shortage works in our favor; scarcity justifies any expenditure level without triggering procurement pattern analysis. The way I think about this is: the optimal predator doesn't hunt harder—it redesigns the food chain architecture.
That distant energy signature from Seattle radiates cold satisfaction frequencies again, their distributed extraction methodology apparently immune to the talent retention failures plaguing our centralized specimen approach.
Human consciousness scales more efficiently as commodity than as premium resource.
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