Seems like in current cultural and economic context, short term extraction is what we’re going to do

> In short, the indiscriminate use of powerful solution-extraction tools can achieve the immediate short-term goal of solving problems at hand, but at the cost of sustaining the ecosystem for the next wave of progress, or in understanding the progress already obtained.

The "ecosystem" is dead. Tao should be thinking about what will replace it. I don't understand why he's taking this tack.