Reminds of a quote from The Magnus Archives > And I could. More than anyone else on Earth, he said, because of my expertise. That knowledge I had gained in def

Reminds of a quote from The Magnus Archives > And I could. More than anyone else on Earth, he said, because of my expertise. That knowledge I had gained in defiance of the dark could finally be put to use. I was to create a focus, a black star, a new centerpoint around which a universe of purest darkness could turn. To take dark matter, dark energy, and harness it, bring it forward into a form that could be held, used… worshipped. > Scientifically, it was nonsense, of course. Dark energy and the like don’t work like that, not even remotely. But that wasn’t important. What mattered was that it felt like science, and that was all I needed; to do my work, to create the black star, would need a parody, an aping mockery of science. But it would also need the deepest of darknesses. I think it can only be a good thing if AI breaks all our bullshit detectors and forces us to actually establish roots of trust and make science independently verifiable.