Tim, just a side-comment on the brief "AI Ezra" interchange at the beginning. Ezra's nod to us being "reinforcement learning mechanisms" is one that many on the liberal/progressive side share with the "tech bros". The question of a possible soul in an AI entity is met with a shrug. The whole topic is orthogonal to anything of "real" importance, in their opinion, as they accept the possibility of Humanity 2.0. We are coming to a head very soon on what it means to be a conscious human. (Spoken as a retired 50-year Silicon Valley guy.)