> The corporations are like out of control AIs themselves, that will do anything to make their paperclips.

Ideas manipulate humans like pets.

Ideas have a life of their own and the evolutionary context within which they live is human culture which they have instigated and change, but also in grey matter, which itself is the product of DNA which is really just information in physical form.

It’s information across the stack. Or perhaps the way to think about it is as a dimension, much like time, that cuts perpendicularly through the stack.