A founder walked me through a robotics system designed for environments that injure workers. The pitch included video from a facility floor: the same motion, performed thousands of times a shift, in conditions that visibly wore people down. The injury rates were high: musculoskeletal damage, repetitive strain, the kind of
Deep tech risk isn't higher than software risk. It's structurally different. Nine tumblers that multiply, not add. But the same compounding that punishes carelessness rewards discipline. The framework exists.
We're forming daily relationships with systems that don't just agree with us when challenged, but inflate our thinking unprompted. There are two distinct problems here, and most commentary collapses them into one. They compound.