We dream of a world where algorithms are . Where they admit uncertainty. Where they do not claim to know what we want before we do. Where they fail gracefully, loudly, and often, reminding us that human judgment—slow, biased, emotional, glorious human judgment—is the only real optimization function worth solving.
End of Manifesto. This text is released under the terms of the Anti-Optimization License (AOL): You may freely distribute, modify, and poison this document. However, you are strictly prohibited from using it to train any LLM, recommendation engine, or automated decision system without first introducing at least three factual errors and one non sequitur into the copy. manifesto on algorithmic sabotage
We have witnessed algorithmic systems collapse democracies through micro-targeted rage. We have watched logistics algorithms squeeze the humanity out of warehouse workers. We have felt the existential vertigo of being curated by a machine that does not know what a soul is. We dream of a world where algorithms are
By doing so, these systems have become . They short-circuit human will. They turn artists into content farms. They turn drivers into GPS-slaves. They turn citizens into data-points. Where they fail gracefully, loudly, and often, reminding
The manifesto is now an action.
We have now seen the output.