I had to login because I haven’t seen anybody reference this in like a decade.

If I remember correctly the author unsuccessfully tried to get that purged from the Internet

You're thinking of something else (and "purged from the internet" isn't exactly an accurate account of that, either).

Genuinely curious… What is the other thing?

Is this some thing about an obelisk?

Hmm maybe I’m misremembering then

I do recall there was some recantation or otherwise distancing from CEV not long after he posted it, but frankly it was long ago enough that my memories might be getting mixed

What was the other one?

This is the most dystopian thing I've read all day.

TL;DR train a seed AI to guess what humans would want if they were "better" and do that.

There’s a film about that called Colossus: The Forbin Project. Pretty neat and in the style of Forbidden Planet.