If there is no way of correcting errors, then sooner or later one of those will get us. I think about places like North Korea where you can't have elections and a revolution is very difficult because the gang in charge are armed to the teeth. It's very hard to climb out of that hole. If too much of the world falls into that mindset, then we as a species may just stagnate. We've lost our biggest discovery, which was the ability to make new discoveries. Do we have the theory yet to create AGI? No, I don't want to say anything against AI but it's not improving in the direction of AGI. A better chess playing engine is one