Jesse Michels

They're reductive.

One of my favorite Marshall McLuhan quotes is, every media extension of man is an amputation.

And it's this idea that we are actually, when we extend ourselves with Neuralink or virtual reality, we are porting ourselves into a lower level prism.

And there's this idea of the fall of man.

And if you do have any sort of soul state, maybe this itself is sort of technology that

you know, to go through the game of life and learn karma or whatever it is.

Like, I don't know what the purpose of life is, but... That's just a really important note there because you do see this sort of bifurcation of...

Yes.

And I think it's a huge fallacy of Silicon Valley to...

say, oh, you can't beat him, join him with the AI and not realizing we might... It's this weird thing, especially with Elon Musk, where it's a literal logical fallacy because he says we're in a simulation now.

So why wouldn't you, A, think about who's simulating us?

Who are the simulators?

You're dogmatically opposed to aliens, apparently, but you think we're in a simulation.

And B, why would you try to port yourself into a lower level simulation?

That shouldn't be the logical conclusion.

And I think if you do this interesting thought experiment, too, where – think about technology as a forcing function where –

take the fusion example where, you know, you have literally an H-bomb that could like destroy the world and technological costs are reducing exponentially over time.

So like eventually you're going to get into a society where maybe a kid from his bedroom can blow up the world.

Like that's crazy and scary.

And then you also have, you know, controlled fusion and free energy or whatever.