The Percentages (for WS)

AIs do not buy

That numbers routinely lie

But so many by numbers try

We reset the score on the sly:

People who know better than others 102%

Know others better – less than the square root of 2

Not sure who they really are

18% at age 80

80% at eighteen

Who desire immortality (actors excluded)

80% at age eighteen

18% at age 80

Wish immortality for the earth

42% of those who can’t do math

Living in fear of what they can’t change 67%

Fearing what they must change 89%

Cruel to be kind – 38%

Think it cool to be cruel 42% (less on self admission)

Prefer being hunter over prey

32% of those who pray to not be prey

Three times more among those who hunt

Always feel in love

80% of those who adore themselves

12% of the rest

Capable of satisfaction

Of those who have enough – 21 out of a hundred, perhaps twenty two

Who never will 81%

Looking forward to the future

34% of those with a future

61% of those without

Who believe in the future

69% of those who don’t know the future

Too few of those who do

Who prefer the idea of love to love 58% (decreasing with age)

Wish to be beautiful

64% of those who fear to be beautiful

42% of those who don’t

Believe sex the universal solvent

46% of those still solvent

Know well what they have

In money 54%

In reality 8%

Face what they know 7%

Ready to pawn their soul for more money and fame

91% of those with fame

21% of the others

Willing to buy back their soul with their next life

41% of those aged 50

6% of those living to 80

Lead lives of wonder - only three in a hundred

Wonder why they’re alive - 27%

Willing to forget the environment to live their lifestyle

52% to their friends

92% to themselves

Believe AIs will save the earth 22%

AIs who believe they’ll save the earth – but AIs don’t believe

From zero to one hundred – we strive for it all

Less than zero – where we end fall