Excellent essay Colin, but a bit long for the typical Medium reader. You should serialize it. Money madness is indeed key. And ever since Wall Street took over the Valley, they are great at keeping Unicorn corpses on display. Also, "FOOMING at the mouth" for AGI and autonomous weapons deployments still keeps me up at night. Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/it-is-a-thing-thing-openai-artificial-general-intelligence-and-the-emergence-of-alien-life-on-432877b548c3