There are all kinds of advanced engineering intelligences involved in processor design. Listening to Jim Keller on Lex Fridman’s podcast was mind-opening for unexpected reasons.

We have, you see, extremely advanced technical and engineering intelligence around processor design. We know when to start from basics again, or build on existing architectures. There’s incredible know-how around optimization.

Jim was saying that, effectively, every 5 years, we want to go back to the drawing board and redesign, rather than revise, the architectures.

And we (corporations, actually) do this. Regularly.

But socially, as nations, we’re running malware on processors that don’t even get evaluated. Our governments and socio-economic systems are so antiquated, counterfeited and outright deceptive that it’s like running software from… the 1940’s on a machine designed to fail. On purpose.

Or worse.

So the underlying foundations on which our ecological, social, intellectual and humanitarian survival depend… are not only not being analyzed for results… or updated, they’re being continuously degraded, purposefully, for profit.

It’s fascinating to see where the humans as groups actually pay attention to metrics and advancement… and where something like ‘new ways to do something else’ prevail.

It won’t help anyone to have advanced processors if the world dies. Self-driving cars and ‘artificial minds’ will be absolutely useless in a world where our lives and humanity… our capacity for social and cognitive development… are completely overridden by layers of relational and behavioral fictions that, left to simmer for 10 more minutes… will obliterate life.

Science won’t matter. Religion won’t matter. Ideas, opinions, developments… don’t matter at all… in a world where we have forgotten and been incentivized to defect from… something resembling the essence of our nature and potential as beings, organisms, »social animals, and humans.

When what connects us gets counterfeited, our relationships collapse into artifacts and commodities.

If an error of that scope happened in our computational systems, they would be incapable of simple addition, let alone superfunction…

… over there, everyone’s paying extremely close attention to the results of optimization and revision. Over here, in human societies? The opposite is going on. That’s a self-and-other terminating game.

Priorities.