Had they retained influence—openly or beneath the surface—life in the East might have turned out far worse. To honour both miracles, to hold both truths, is what today is about, at least for me: gratitude for what was achieved, and empathy for the costs it imposed.

would you please elaborate about the eating many times a day? I do 1 max 2...

Remember: they reopened coal plants to fuel this "revolution" and now there's some dramatically cheaper thing that does mostly the same stuff without the need for the biggest data centers and newest chips. OpenAI has no real moat! Neither does Anthropic, or Google, or anyone really!