What happens if such a complex system collapses? Disaster, of course. But don’t forget that we already depend upon enormously complex systems that we no longer even think of as technological. Urbanization, agriculture, and trade were at one time huge innovations. Their collapse (and all of them are now at risk, in different ways, as we have seen in recent months) would be an even greater catastrophe than the collapse of our growing webs of interconnected intelligence.
If in fact the future is what the rest of the article envisions, a world of accurate measures and prudent predictions, then the possibilities for collapse will become less and less.
Making the case that such largess will of course lead to the linear probability of increase in damage that would result in collapse, ignores in large part, if not the majority of the science behind cognitive development and AI science—risk mitigation and error elimination.
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If in fact the future is what the rest of the article envisions, a world of accurate measures and prudent predictions, then the possibilities for collapse will become less and less.
Making the case that such largess will of course lead to the linear probability of increase in damage that would result in collapse, ignores in large part, if not the majority of the science behind cognitive development and AI science—risk mitigation and error elimination.