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Moostache

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1. The math here is well-beyond me, as is the theory in general...BUT...
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 01:47 PM
Mar 3

THIS is the kind of work that I wanted to believe the government would be funding and leveraging for the future...instead, we have Trump and Musk and his band of merry children hackers/cultists running around treating everything as a nail because they see themselves not as innovators or scientists or even really efficiency experts, but rather as the sledge hammer of heir bosses' dreams.

For the silicon valley miracles to happen, they NEED this level of understanding and intelligence to make progress, NOT the idiotic "move fast and break things" ethos of some bullshit business books meant to dumb things down and "inspire"...

All I can say for certain is this - Carl Sagan was right. He saw this mess coming decades ago and tried to warn us... now we live in that technological time where EVERYTHING is dependent on technology that almost NOONE actually understands and thus abuse and bad decisions are baked into everything we do.

Humanity is an evolutionary dead-end, even though we had the capacity to avoid such a fate, we simply lack the ability to rise above and beyond one of the simplest emotions - GREED.

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