Generally speaking, thought experiments are not dangerous. As useful tools for “gaming” out a scenario, they could certainly point to a danger in the future, but they are not traditionally a problem for those who conduct them. Such an idea would, for much of human history, feel ludicrous. But we live in unusual times, and
Generally speaking, cryptids are easily disproven. Such fantasy creatures belong entirely in the imagination of the more creative sections of humanity, but such secret, unknown species do not exist. There is no giant forgotten ape hiding in the forests of north America, nor is there something similar in the Himalayas. There is no relic population
There is much we don’t know. We may have made extraordinary strides on understanding the limits and levers of reality in the past few hundred years, but we have more questions now than when we started, and far more questions than answers. We do not know who we are, or indeed what we are. We