“There is a direct biological conflict between organisms and analysis.

The goal of simulating, for analysis, all the activities of a single eukaryotic cell over one second is literally unachievable. It would require far more than all the computation ever attempted.

But the goal of attempting that simulation is insane. Because as your simulations increase in accuracy, that accuracy comes at the explicit cost of dead ecologies.

So imagine a species that, unaware of this, decides that ‘accurate’ analysis is ‘the most important goal’. They build machines that offload catastrophic entropy in the biosphere. They claim that this will allow them ‘to solve their problems’, most of which, if not all of which, are largely »generated by machines. An entire planet can die of this disease, in a very short time. If actual survival, or anything human is in any way meaningful, precious or important… this desire is directly orthogonal to such recognitions.

The ‘greater the accuracy’ you obtain from measurement, at least around here, the more lines of historical and future organisms must be obliterated to ‘fund’ this insanity.

Physics hasn’t discovered this yet, but it will turn out that the desire for ‘measurement’ becomes abjectly lethal when pursued without the necessary orienting concerns for its actual results. Which are not numbers in machines. It’s actual results, pursued without intelligent limit… are dead planets.

It won’t have helped »anything for us to become ‘scientific’, if science produces the weapons and ‘simulations’ with which we extinguish ourselves and our planet’s anciently conserved ecologies. In such a case, the »entire history of human endeavor will be recontexted by its results. Not only will they be ‘meaningless’, they will be monumentally ironic, tragic, and apocalyptic.”

— S A M