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While explaining his ongoing work to "prepare humanity to become a multiplanetary species", Elon Musk said "The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist." and the he was an "almost pathological optimist" and had to have been in order to attempt the things he does. The dustbin of history is being optimized. Trash-brain interfaces are being optimized by Neuralink.

I think you're right about the mushrooms, instead of developing technology in the short span of the end of a civilization, why not make the best of the wisdom of beings that have evolved for millions of years and are said to be the base of ecosystems, making up 30% of topsoil mass in the form living and dead mushrooms, as well as other life-forms. How to leave them to it? How to give them space to do their thing? Or what?