That Force Pushing Us

There was something that drove humans during the development of the atomic bomb. This sense that we (as Americans) have to push this technology forward, no matter what the outcomes of it are, in part because if we don’t, someone else will. We’re seeing the same thing now, with the development of AI. I am of the opinion that it’s pointless to restrict it too much — if we do so, we’ll just fall behind as others continue to push it forward.

This force is course always there, but I think we tend to just notice it more when there is a sense of some level of peril. It’s the result of curiosity, discovery, and competition. In a lot of ways, it happens seemingly against our will, even though it’s individuals that are driving it forward, as if we have no other option, than to just go along with it.

I just find this interesting on some level, because it’s something that’s just baked into how us humans work, and therefore, it’s just a property of the universe itself. And I of course don’t mean for this to sound overly “mystical” or anything, it’s just a natural output of the laws of the universe, which is just, interesting.

But to my knowledge, this process doesn’t really have a name. Perhaps it does, but I’m not aware of it. And it seems like something that’s a large enough driver of happenings in the universe that it really should have a name.