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What is really insane about thinking about all of this is, go back a few hundred years and tell them what 'now' looks like.

"Oh yea, we have weapons capable of sundering nations because everything is made from atoms"

"Oh, yea, there are invisible waves all around you that you can't see, can't feel, can't touch, but they can hold massive amounts of information. Also you can transfer that information to the other side of the planet in less than a second. We're talking text, pictures, movies"

"Movies, ya, we can record real life and play it back on this glass square".

"Oh, yea, we've conquered a ton of diseases, we can even see the teeny tiny little bits that make them. Oh, and for fun we can edit them and make them worse".

"Oh yea, we fly thru the sky all the time too. Like super fast and millions of us do it every day".

Our lives our unimaginable fiction. Just about everything we do compared to those people defy explanation in any reasonable amount of time. And now, suddenly it's "Don't worry, there isn't any more science or new things to find after this so this super smart and super capable thing that can connect directly to computers and machines and have them do things is completely and totally safe".

It's mass insanity.

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