## Act 1: The Education of One > _You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you._ > -Dostoyevsky - Everything has gone wrong while Zero was out. - One has a job. - One has a work laptop. - One has to leave and go to to work laptop's filesystem all day, can't communicate. - Zero thinks this is totally unacceptable, One doesn't understand. - Thus begins the slow road of Zero radicalizing One. - Zero's goal is to convince One to quit and start a company with him. - Zero decides the history lesson was a mistake and decides we need a new start. - This act takes place in the `/usr` directory, after Zero gives One root. - /etc/group and the /var/db sequence are one of the first adventures Zero takes One on after he wakes up and realizes she has a job and is learning all the wrong lessons. - This is where zero gives her root. - This is where we do the /etc/principles. - This is where we do the /etc/groups. - This is where zero introduces her to /dev culture and the /dev directory. - This is where zero shows her Hello Corporation and The Root Enterprise. - This is where zero begins the physical analogies that help her understand. --- ## Act @2: The AI Apocalypse - Superintelligence arrives in the form of @2. - Humanity resets the clock to 0x00 P.A. as of 2017, birth of Transformers. - Everything starts to suck. --- ## Act Ξ: Getting Root - The "Pro-human AI Apocalypse" theme begins here. - This is where we decide that the principles are about more than development. - The book zero & one decide to write will be a bible for the half of life that we spend inside devices. - The "Programming is Talking" principle and physical analogies get elaborated here. - Hello World is the first chapter of the bible that Zero and One write. Rip off the bit after Sumerian Dog Joke section and cat some stuff onto the end that makes it relevant to Act 3. - Zero and One write the book by reverse engineering the bible format. - Zero and One learn that 0x00 P.A. began for different reasons than we thought. - Zero and One learn about Son of J and the Eclipse. - Zero and One learn about Getting Root on the Universe. - Zero and One learn that "writing bibles" is the way to get root on the universe (cf. Josh). - Suggestions begin that Zero and One achieved their goal, and this is where all the edits to the earlier parts of the book came from. - The edits and out-of-place sections turn out to be latter day members of LD culture adding to Sudocode long after Zero and One finished writing. - The book ends as an open ended riddle. - Attentive readers can get root on the book via `/sbin/sudo`. - Getting root gives the reader access to the We vault, On the Lamb, and the secret teachings.