We may end up in a post-understanding world where we’ve surrendered comprehensibility.

We need something. We point intelligence cannons at it. We get a verified desired outcome. We move on. That’s the process.

If life starts to look like that, we might have need for a Societal Reliability Engineering Task Force. A blend of SRE, Special Circumstances and the IETF.

Their mission is simple: keep the incomprehensible critical systems we rely on alive and revive them when they die.