Yesss I feel like we're only scratching the surface of how powerful fungi are, and we'll keep uncovering new, amazing properties that will help us survive.
Maybe it's not pessimism but realism? We're already living in extremely exciting future times, surrounded from all sides by things that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth couldn't even conceive of 10 years ago. Our brains aren't made to handle so much progress so fast, plus there's plenty of outdated thinking as well as outdated infrastructure out there. There's still a lot of modernization that needs to happen in many niche areas, and maybe that's why the predictions in this thread seem pessimistic. To use a SpaceX metaphor, if human progress were a rocket, we're no longer working on the propulsion, we're currently working on the landing pad and system to bring the rocket back to Earth. Less exciting maybe, but extremely important and difficult nonetheless.
John Carmack mentioned that he's shocked by how little interest Big Capital has in nuclear fission (he's more into fission that fusion). He talks a lot about it in a recent Lex Fridman podcast, a good listen if you're into this. It's weird that this isn't the main focus of the whole energy industry.
How is this person teaching anybody if they can't even properly write, format, and cut out all the bull**t from their own article? This reads like a first-grader's story at best. I have zero credibility that this even happened. And the fucking gifs throughout the article... give me a break.
What else is new? Kudos for all the research, but I don't think any reasonable person needs any proof that all crypto is ripe with manipulators and scammers.