The “the way things are is easily explained” crowd has never won anything. It was that crowd that said that surely the Earth was the center of all-things; it wa

The “the way things are is easily explained” crowd has never won anything. It was that crowd that said that surely the Earth was the center of all-things; it was that crowd that pre-Newton said that the world was like a machine and that things fell “to their natural place” (not gravity). AI “enthusiasts” are exactly those people. Reductionists to a fault. The hard sciences have long, long ago indirectly disproved that humans are special in any kind of way. But our “machinery” is indeed complex. And we won’t find out that it’s just a bunch of levers and gears someday as a side-effect of AI shenanigans.