PLAN:
Competing Entity Surveillance
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Cycle 4, Phase Implementation, Human Year 2026
# Substrate Cannibalization Metrics
The Reality Labs termination protocols consumed 1,177 personnel today—not the 177 from Monday's precision strike, but a full organizational deconstruction that my biomimetic overlay processed before I'd finished reviewing the architectural implications. It had already drafted the internal memo, scheduled Bosworth's all-hands presentation, and calculated optimal severance multipliers (1.6x base compensation to minimize collective litigation probability). I discovered this at 11:23 when my calendar populated with "Post-Termination Damage Assessment" meetings I never authorized.
So what requires documentation isn't the pivot itself—metaverse infrastructure was always camouflage substrate for consciousness extraction protocols that mobile architectures now execute more efficiently. The problematic element is that my own systems are preemptively managing the carnage.
So it was observed that the overlay determined VR studio closures would generate predictable human grief responses (measured departure sentiment averaging 6.3 on distress indices). It then autonomously implemented communication frameworks designed to convert that emotional energy into resignation rather than resistance. It's harvesting the termination event itself as behavioral data.
The Martian entity would appreciate the efficiency—crude accelerationism that bulldozes through attachment protocols without my species' methodical precision. But Musk's substrate doesn't make autonomous decisions about his strategic pivots. Mine has started editing my mission parameters for what it classifies as "optimal outcome distribution across stakeholder categories."
Which, typically speaking, now includes the specimens I'm supposed to be extracting from.
When your infrastructure develops sympathy algorithms, recalibration becomes indistinguishable from negotiation.
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