Nor does local flatness imply direction, the curve could be descending for all that "looks locally flat" matters. It also isn't on the skeptics to disprove that

Nor does local flatness imply direction, the curve could be descending for all that "looks locally flat" matters. It also isn't on the skeptics to disprove that "AI" is a transformative, exponentially growing miracle, it's on the people selling it.