> We have a word for it within the domain of philosophy and literature: Kafkaesque. I was thinking of something a little different and even considered specif

> We have a word for it within the domain of philosophy and literature: Kafkaesque. I was thinking of something a little different and even considered specifically excluding Kafka and indeed Weber (I've read a lot of Franz Kafka but am a Cliffs Notes imposter on Max Weber) from my comment. In The Trial, or Before the Law, the anxiety lies in not knowing the mind of a, possibly ambivalent, judging other. In modernity, Weber's modernity, it is spelled out in intricate, mind numbing detail, in reams of forms that must be gymnastically navigated. One step further in the direction I am describing is the officers of Jaroslav Hasek's Good Soldier Svejk In this incarnation bureaucracy is not an all-powerful force to be feared, it is a stumbling, stuttering, inconsistent fool of a thing that can be easily tricked. It brings tedium not anxiety. I'll wager many hackers relate to that experience of encountering systems. That is what I mean by the vision of AI versus AI. Two broken retarded robots sprawling about in the mud while humans gather around in a circle and laugh. But the last laugh is on us for building them and getting enchanted by the spectacle.