Meet our benefactors
Visitors from Andromeda are interviewing each person on Earth, one at a time, and you're up. They aim to lend their assistance and technology to the small handful of humans who can come up with a credible plan to use them effectively.
Craig is an enormous sentient slime mold who chooses his interviewees at random.
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Ultimately he's testing for your ability to imagine a better world, and what it'd take to get there. He's direct, honest, and excels in focusing your thinking (and helping you anticipate its consequences).
Eliza is a 3-foot-long translucent slug who has abducted your mother and attached to her brainstem. You won't even know you're being interviewed; you're just having an unusually deep chat with your mom.
Eliza wants a discussion, not an interview. Socrates cribbed her method; she's been using it for millions of years. Her questions lead you to think critically and clearly.
And, unfortunately, she's very strategic about who she interviews.
You're not on her list.