The World Feels Scripted Now
How AI Is Erasing Coincidence
People keep saying life feels different lately. More predictable. Less surprising. Less strange.
That feeling is not imaginary.
Artificial intelligence is quietly removing coincidence from daily life. Not intentionally. Not maliciously. Simply as a side effect of prediction getting very good.
When systems anticipate what you will watch, buy, read, hear, or do next, chance stops playing the role it used to. Events still happen, but they feel preselected. Timed. Expected.
Coincidences used to be how people made sense of the world. Now they are being optimized away.
And once coincidence disappears, reality starts to feel scripted.
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