Right?! I think there's lots of honest debate to be had about how superficial we are, but honestly, my reaction to this is "That worked? wow!"
This is exactly why I have problems with all the "AI / self-driving cars / CRISPR / etc" articles that correctly point out how long we've spent with revolution "just around the corner"....that corner might be far away, or it might be close and there's every reason to be skeptical of any given claim. But when it happens, it WILL be dramatically rapid, and poo-pooing the idea of thinking about it in advance just leads us to a society that was warned long ago of a coming adjustments yet is always somehow surprised.
This is exactly why I have problems with all the "AI / self-driving cars / CRISPR / etc" articles that correctly point out how long we've spent with revolution "just around the corner"....that corner might be far away, or it might be close and there's every reason to be skeptical of any given claim. But when it happens, it WILL be dramatically rapid, and poo-pooing the idea of thinking about it in advance just leads us to a society that was warned long ago of a coming adjustments yet is always somehow surprised.