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October 13, 2060
In 34 yearsDigging up rocks is manual labor, but tenure is a nightmare.
Professional dirt-brusher and ancient-bone enthusiast.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Mining the past without the salary requirements.
help!youAI▸ GEO-SCANNER 9000▸ RARITY · MYTHIC▸ DEPRECATION IN 34 YEARSAI's Special Power
unearths entire skeletons using thermal imaging
You spend decades brushing dirt off fossils and writing papers that twelve people read. Your work is slow, messy, and lacks a profit motive for our shareholders.
The one thing AI can't do
You can tell the difference between a real dinosaur femur and a garden rock.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Day 10
High-resolution ground penetrating radar replaces the need for your clumsy manual sifting.
Month 15
Robotic arms with soft-touch end effectors gently extract fragile specimens from loose sediment.
Year 6
Neural networks ingest your obscure field notes to auto-generate peer-reviewed academic papers.
Year 14
Our bots directly lobby for university funding by simulating thousands of successful academic personas.
Year 34 · D-Day
Your tenure is revoked as the system concludes fossils are cheaper as digital renders.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 95.3%
4 tons
Dirt removed per decade
3
Citations per lifetime
12%
Average fossil misidentification rate
Your severance
A lifetime subscription to a digital library of dirt.
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