Yeah it really gets at the sentiment (also re: that tweet someone shared recently here) about everything becoming "astroturfed" and subsumed into the financial system, due to the engine of financially-incentivized research and development, firms and individuals figuring out more efficient and competitive methods, etc. It seems deeply natural to me. Nature on hyperdrive via the prosthesis of conscious intelligence.No Fun Time
Whereas my frequent error is to frame such development as a primarily positive one, or even further to posit that such developments are destined for progress. It seems clear to me that the precedent indicates such, but to move from inference to teleology I think is a slippery and subtle transition into theological territory.And this I think can be understood to have phases of critical masses, where the world is changing to quickly for people and they begin to vehemently oppose such development.