> We should find a way to get "re-sensitized" to what we are witnessing and the pace of it.

We (collectively, there were obviously many exceptions) didn't internalise exponential growth even with the much faster doubling time of COVID-19 before the lockdowns hit. "Oh, it's just flu; wait, why is the supermarket short of hand sanitiser and bulk carbohydrates? Let's blame China and everyone who tells us to wear face masks!"

Same for the slower, but entirely foreseen, rate of climate change. "Who cares, it's just a few degrees, and anyway China's not going to cut emissions; wait why is the sky orange? Let's blame Canada and put tariffs on Chinese cars and PV!"

AI? "Who cares, it's just a stochastic parrot/glorified autocomplete. What's the Jacobin conjecture and why should I care, it's just brute-force."

Still, this is currently spiky intelligence, so I'm hoping some expensive-but-zero-to-few-fatalities catastrophic error forces better practices. An AI analog of the (1940) Tacoma Narrows Bridge (one canine fatality), rather than a repeat of Chernobyl or the (1984) Union Carbide incident in Bhopal (3,787-16k+ dead, ≥558,125 injured).