Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”
That sentence should keep you up tonight.
We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.
It is the opposite.
Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.
My input
In theoretical physics, on the other hand, the mainstream gatekeepers ensure that unsanctioned progress may occur like a boulder on a hill, but the hill is hidden in a cloud of obfuscation. ChatGPT, the last time I looked, claimed the physics arising from the “Dixon algebra” predicts nothing. Well, how about the existence of an antimatter twin universe, just for starters. So, uh, what – at this late stage in my life – the fuck am I doing?
