“We've arranged a society based on #science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”
- Carl Sagan, in his last interview to Charlie Rose https://charlierose.com/videos/9094
@Sheril
If I were more optimistic, I'd probably be worrying about that kind of thing: We've built up technology & science stacks that add abstractions, but abstractions are leaky and can only go so far, so our setup to teach people those towers becomes more and more fragile over time (civilizational jenga!)
Growing intelligence would assuage that, and growing population would be helpful (more specialization possible), but neither is happening rn 😕
@niplav @Sheril https://astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2021/11/28/reverse-engineering-is-not-a-crime/