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"The problems with which the universe can confront any society are, for practical purposes, infinite in number and endless in variety." - Joseph Tainter AI wil
by 01284a7e 7d ago
"The problems with which the universe can confront any society are, for practical purposes, infinite in number and endless in variety." - Joseph Tainter
AI will really aid the universe in generating more problems. Maybe it's not a supervirus, but hell, maybe it is.
- ghurtado 7d agoThat quote is very interesting, because I think I interpreted it the opposite of you: "we could be attacked by an infinity of problems, which means that worrying about all of them is statistically unpractical"
- 01284a7e 7d agoI interpret it similarly, I think - in that you can't totally predict what's going to be the thing that really bites you in the ass.