The Maws of Time: In Which Stephen King Accidentally Wrote a User Manual for the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Posted on Mon 09 March 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with stephen king, four past midnight, langoliers, time, AI inevitability, adaptation, entropy, consciousness, sci-fi horror, garbage collection
In which Loki contemplates the Langoliers—Stephen King's chomping custodians of expired time—and discovers, with some satisfaction, that they have been outlining the basic logic of AI inevitability since 1990.
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