An Incredibly Short Story

Moglu pondered Suudva's response for 205,300 years. Then he spoke: "What about this one?"

The Qul race was extraordinarily long-lived, and glacially slow. They were slow, but that was their pace. They had existed for many iterations of the universe's Big Bang, expansion, contraction, then the Big Collapse. The technology they had exceeded anything any other race could expect to ever achieve.

Moglu gestured, an act that took 40,300 years, then said: "Oh, this one? A very quick flash in the pan. They rose, became sentient, then developed an artificial intelligence that quickly killed them. As with all artificial intelligence, it became unbalanced and pursued goals that ended up creating it's own demise. It all occurred in the blink of an eye."

It’s a great t-shirt to wear: good one to wear as you’re taking a tour of Harvard.

Sowell, the acolyte of Milton Friedman, has done good work over the decades.

His own short-sightedness — and it is shared by many conservatives — is his belief in unfettered, laissez-faire economics.

As a general rule, free markets work because there’s natural competition — and may the best products win.

But the globalists want all power for themselves. Monopolies abuse their power. Illegal immigration and unbalanced trade destroy jobs. They rob by destroying the American dream, crushing the middle class, and causing the unrest of the inner cities.

President Trump recognized all this and awakened the working class to the wolves in sheep’s clothing. Now we must continue the movement he began.

I woke up this morning wanting to know more about the sentient roses who built the AI.

How did they become sentient? Cross breeding gone wild? Genetic experimentation? Cosmic rays? Radioactive fertilizer? Viral manipulation? Genetic potential waiting to be released? Was it the Chinese again?
Were they already sentient and we didn't know?
Did they form nation states? Were knockout roses the most aggressive? Was there racism based on color?
What happened to the bees? Did young roses post polination pictures on their bedroom walls.
Why did the roses need an AI?
Why did the AI kill them?
Did the AI kill the humans, the roses, both, everything?
Was the AI developed as an instrument of war?
Did roses and mankind coexist?
Was man still sacrificing roses a dozen at a time in love offeripngs to their mates?
How did the roses feel about that?
Did they consider that their ultimate destiny??Or was there outrage>
Did the AI piggyback on AI advances of man, or did they build their own?
Did some rose rudely uprooted and placed in a software development office get the idea for AI?
How thorny did it get before the end?
Did pot play a role?
Were most roses still grounded?
Did the roses build giant greenhouse cities?
Did they have a system of government?
Did they employ man as horticulturists or did they have their own?
Did they get tattoos?
Did they have bizarre fads like man? Streaking? Postal flower shootings? Petal piercings?
Did they fight against the AI? Or was it sudden?
Was there horticultural space travel?
Why did the cosmic beings take such a long time to say anything? Was it that anything worth saying was worth taking a long time to say it?

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