That bit where the old curator refused to rank doodles by market mood hit me. Calling that a flaw felt cold, since treating every mark as worthy, that’s a roBOt trying to value humans, not just prices, even if the markets would short circuit over it. His nightly doodling to grow more human is oddly sweet and and defnitely relatable. Sometimes the nonsense is actually the compass, and you nailed that tension between commerce and care.
Thanks so much! I think about such tensions a lot: commerce v care, human v robot. o glad you see the same things.
yeah, same here. Those pulls keep the story alive, where the bot learns to pick care over price tags and and sees every doodle as a person’s spark. Funny how that feels more human than our market reflexes, and it kinda nudges me to keep thnking about value beyond sales.