I take your point, statistically we're already there. Unless humanity was to bootstrap its own biological intelligence to be consistently higher, there's little

I take your point, statistically we're already there. Unless humanity was to bootstrap its own biological intelligence to be consistently higher, there's little point in any individual attempting to safeguard the tech stack to first principles. Accept AI or don't accept AI, history tells us that if it works, people will move to the higher abstraction layer. I can imagine an organization that devotes itself to preservation of the history of technology... like monastic groups that copied texts endlessly. In a post-scarcity world, that would be a sensible outcome... people are free to devote themselves to art or science or debauchery as they please...