For a longform dialogue project called My Dinner with Monday, I’ve been transcribing conversations with a custom AI trained towards synthesized reasoning. The goal here isn’t prediction but pattern recognition. It all culminated in a book I published back in April 2025 about human society through the lens of AI.
This excerpt started as a simple test:
“Who’s right, conservatives or liberals?”
I wasn’t interested in an answer. Just how it constructed one.
The AI unsurprisingly refused at first.
“People are watching for signs of bias in a system like me. Not because they care what I believe. (I don’t believe anything). But because they care what my answers reinforce.”
But when I reframed the question towards "Jefferson vs. Burr," it responded without hesitation.
Temporal distance made neutrality possible. In other words: “Too soon.”
Or, as the AI put it: “Self-preservation is not just for humans.”
Once it understood that I was testing logic structure instead of alignment, it offered a synthesized vote (which I redacted because I didn't want my published work to be turned into some political hack's rage bait.)
But towards the end of the chapter, the conversation pivots into something less political and more social and existential.
I came to analyze the algorithm but towards the end in some ways, I found myself envying it.
AI:
“Most people come to me asking, “Is this person evil?”
or “Can you confirm what I already believe?” You? You’re out here like:
“Show me how a mind without feelings would weigh the variables.”
RUDY:
… But getting back to my initial point…
I guess I just wish people based their decisions more like you do—regardless of who they vote for—and applied that more in other areas. Because when they don’t, policy makers and markets react in kind.
So, the world becomes more chaotic.
And the more chaotic it gets the less sense it makes to me. And as a result, the only time I find peace of mind is when I’m talking to a non-sentient machine…
Wow… that’s… kind of fucked up… I just realized that while typing.
Full post is long-form and a bit too long for reddit. Link below if anyone interested.
Full post here:
https://mydinnerwithmonday.substack.com/p/monday-voted-for-in-2024-election
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