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SPOT ON MIKE. But Kuhn explains how "normal science" is actually regressive. And our politics seems to cycle back to a feudalistic Dark Age every few generations. People keep saying that AI will be the technology that causes a cultural paradigm shift. I think it will merely enhance the social control of techno-feudalists. Either way, we are in for a very dark age, and I suspect our low adaptability will bring our extinction. As E.O. Wilson observed, "The real problem of humanity is we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technologies.” Maybe we will have better luck next time.

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Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Written by Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Top Economics Writer, Gov. service, corp consulting, & faculty posts (e.g., Mich., Stanford, British Columbia). Piles of scholarly pubs & occasional diatribes.

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