how to prepare for AGI

Advocate for differential privacy. Lie naked on a beach. Build an operating system. Scrub a public toilet. Memorize a parable. Make your boss show you the entire cap table. Fireproof your lover against your manipulations. Avoid venture capital. Fund an invisible artist. Live without a credit card. Pick a lock. Invite a stranger to dance without saying a word. Organize a farmers market. Buy a tongue scraper. See the beauty in capitalism. Shoplift vitamins from CVS. Play percussion in a park. Don’t separate the recycling. Write your dad a book. Manage a surveillance tool. Waste more food. Reverse-engineer a simulation game. Spend the night on a public bench. Let others leave. Draw a QR code by hand. Watch a baby play with a leaf. Interfere in world politics. Buy flower fertilizer. Sell something to a thousand people. Have sex blindfolded. Get a full blood panel. Study a new religion. Ride a Lime scooter. Don’t buy a car. Rearrange someone else’s furniture. Post to your WhatsApp status. Leave home without deciding where to go. Eat animal flesh. Perform on a public stage. Name the uncomfortable thing. Brew kava tea at a party. Don’t buy GTA 6. Craft a gravity bong. Spare an ant’s life. Send an elder a letter by USPS. Cut your own hair. Don’t propagate evil on social media. Phone government officials. Cheat on your school exams. Confess something to your parents. Start taking probiotics. Post poetry on LinkedIn. Pour Drano down your shower drain. Design a spiritual retreat. Have sex in a museum bathroom. Meditate on a rock for an hour and a half. Buy a CD-ROM. Become nobody. Leave Post-its all over someone’s place. Don’t be a landlord. Paint your house a bright color. Delete an optimization. Draw what’s in the middle. Scrawl a big word across your bedroom wall with a dry-erase marker. Meet someone at the supermarket. Smile at a stranger from afar. Uninstall every mobile game. Plan a trip to Suriname. Dance inside a church. Call someone you haven’t spoken to in ten years. Write a love letter to your enemy. Immerse your body in bodies of water. Watch a bird fly away. Sow flower seeds in an empty landfill. Begin something you won’t finish for twenty years. Love your neighbor.