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Just a Little Bit Early
“What am I looking for?”
“Just watch.”
A video played on a monitor, showing a car at a traffic light. The light turned green and the car accelerated through the intersection.
“Did you see it?”
“See what?”
“I’ll step through it.” The video flickered, rewound, and stepped through a few frames before the light changed. “Here.”
“Ah, OK. So he jumped the lights, so what?”
“We weren’t impressed either, but the algorithm popped it to the surface. Check this out.”
Another video played. Same car, different intersections. Dozens of them. Every time, the car’s brake lights went off a few frames before the lights changed.
“OK, so he does it a lot, so what? Why am I here?”
“He does it precisely three frames in advance, every time. Even on intersections with sensors, not timers. Every. Time.”
“Huh.”
“Yeah. We started following him. He does this everywhere. Moves to tap his card a moment before the machine is ready, steps towards doors before they start to open.”
They regarded each other in brief silence.
“How?”
“He’s a phenomenal gamer, but he keeps getting called out for cheating. No proof has ever been found.”
“Tell me how.”
“Amazing boxer too. Like he sees every move before it’s made.”
“How does he do it?”
“Talking to him is annoying, he answers every question the instant you finish asking it.”
“Stop fucking with me, damn it.”
“We ran some tests. A lot of tests. He’s been very cooperative, apparently he’s felt out of sync his whole life.”
“Get to the fucking point.”
“He’s ahead of us.”
More silence.
“His brain is just… a split second ahead. Of me, of you, of the machines. It’s like he’s from the future. A very near future.”
“Even if it is true, so what?”
“Oh, it’s true. And it’s measurable. And repeatable.”
“A split second, so what?”
“Imagine him in a stock trading room. On a battlefield.”
“Ah.”
“Yeah.”
“Huh.”
“And we think we figured it out, we can bottle it. Spread it. Amplify it.”
“Goddamn.”
“Yeah. Things are about to get very interesting.”
--NFG
[ Jun 2 2025 ]
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