'Someone hated manual shifting so much he made oil think' — the AI joke of the day
amplifiedamp · x · 2026-09-14
A viral one-liner making the rounds: someone hated driving a manual car so much that he found a way to make oil think instead — a witty distillation of the entire AI/autonomy mission, framed as humanity's laziness driving the invention of intelligence.
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