what society has done is it has found a way to harvest low entropy from these people by having them perform menial tasks on a massive complex of data collection machines  the internet. we are not giving them puzzles to solve, we are simply asking them to make simple decisions. every like, every comment, and every page view, it all represents a series of decisions made by the user, and it is in these decisions that the low-entropy is extracted. by analyzing this data, we extract information, and therefore lower our entropy, fulfilling our prime directive.  a little entertainment is all it takes to make the masses dedicate their lives to this task. through the production of tv shows, music, and tiktoks, the entertainment industry is doing just as big a part as any other to build our magnum opus by making sure that the crop yield will remain high. it really is beautiful, we now have all hands on deck laying bricks down for this ultimate centralized grand creation. not only are these previously useless industries now made useful, but even their past efforts have been retroactively been made useful.  with any luck, this mega pocket of low-entropy we are all creating with be able to birth one even greater from itself. right now, the most likely form of this seems to be an artificial general intelligence trained on this data, but who knows? it could be anything. such an intelligence would be a truly amazing thing. we will have created something bigger than ourselves and much lower-entropy, thus finally fulfilling our purpose as a species. this is the meaning of life, to create something better than yourself. this is the good ending for humanity, to leave behind something better than us. only just recently has a genuine path to this ending become visible. lets hope we make it.
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