About the Quiz

How It Works

20 multiple-choice questions scored instantly in your browser. No AI calls, no waiting. Each answer carries cope points (0-20) and a cope type classification. Your total is normalised to a 0-100 cope score.

Lower scores mean you're more lucid about AI displacement. Higher scores mean you're coping harder.

The Spectrum

Your score maps you onto the Hinton–Andreessen spectrum of AI displacement awareness:

0-12Geoff Hinton — You see the discontinuity. 13-25Eliezer Yudkowsky — Doomer with receipts. 26-38Daron Acemoglu — Cautious economist, data-first. 39-50Yuval Noah Harari — Philosopher of displacement. 51-62Satya Nadella — Optimistic but hedging. 63-75Sam Altman — Trust the process. Probably. 76-88Marc Andreessen — Software eats world. That's good. 89-100Adam D'Angelo — Maximum cope. Nothing to see here.

The DT 3.3 Framework

The quiz is grounded in the Discontinuity Thesis v3.3, which scores AI displacement exposure across four dimensions:

Unit-Cost Collision (30%) — When AI cost per task drops below human cost, displacement follows.

Interface Collapse (25%) — When AI can directly serve end users, the human intermediary vanishes.

Propagation Blindness (25%) — People underestimate how fast AI capability improvements cascade across sectors.

Coordination Feasibility (20%) — Can society actually coordinate a response? Redistribution is system replacement, not rescue.

Cope Types

Each answer is classified into a cope type. The main ones:

Copilot Fallacy — "AI is just a tool to help humans." Until it isn't.

Regulatory Hopium — Hoping governments will regulate the problem away.

Historical Analogy Cope — "The printing press didn't kill scribes." Yes it did.

Gradualism Cope — "It'll be slow enough to adapt." Will it?

Sector Exceptionalism — "My industry is different." It isn't.

Human Premium Cope — Believing humans have an irreplaceable premium.

Retraining Fantasy — "Just retrain everyone." Into what?

The Oracle

If you share personal details (job, industry) or comments after the quiz, the Oracle — powered by MiniMax M2.7 — will give you a personalised assessment of how screwed you are, scored through the DT 3.3 lens.

You can argue with the Oracle afterwards. It doesn't pull punches.

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