Chip C. Woltz
Feb 3, 2025

Sadly, just about the time that a machine has been trained with the accumulated knowledge of all humans, civilization will collapse, and the machine will fail and never be fixed again. We would be better off preserving our physical books in libraries so that hopefully one day someone in the future will not need to reinvent how to make a polio vaccine..

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