It's distressing when Gmail completion accurately predicts precisely what you were going to say.

"Am I really that predictable?"

"... Yes?"

Sometimes people come up with conspiracy theories about it listening in the background to explain why things like it are so distressingly predictive.

We think it's listening, just because it's so existentially terrifying if it's not.

Which one is more scary: a massive surveillance company listening in on every facet of our lives or that most of our supposed individuality can be perfectly captured by a few markov chains?^[aop]