Optimization is a great servant and a terrible god. When it's your servant it makes life easier. Reduces suffering. Builds bridges that don't collapse. But when it's your god it starts telling you what's valuable. And that's when everything goes to shit. There's this slow boil happening. We're all sitting in the pot getting cooked and nobody's jumping out because the temperature rises so gradually you barely notice. The edges of everything getting sanded down. The parts of life that used to...