Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture (2015)
Brian Eno is a skilled musician.  He&#x27;s a lousy economic, systems, and AI theorist.<p>The Edge is revealing itself far more to be a forum in which people of provenance hold forth on that which they&#x27;ve no particular qualifications or grounds to discuss (something which <i>never</i> happens elsewhere on the Internet, of course &lt;&#x2F;s&gt;).<p>Complex, highly-interdependent systems exibit fragility, nonlinear transitions, and multiple optima, some not reachable, some local and highly persistent but undesirable.<p>Tossing up ones hands and declaring that all shall be as God &#x2F; Allah &#x2F; The Great Spirit &#x2F; FSM wills it abandons all sense of agency.<p>The prospects of a global collapse of systems concerns a great many people, and for much the reason AI would:  the mechanisms, logic, interactions, limits, and consequences aren&#x27;t clear.  See David Korowicz&#x27;s &quot;Trade-Off&quot;.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feasta.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;trade-off-financial-system-supply-chain-cross-contagion-a-study-in-global-systemic-collapse&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feasta.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;trade-off-financial-system-...</a><p>As for technological unemployment, that&#x27;s been a consideration for over 200 years.  You&#x27;ll find strong treatments from J.S. Mill, and commentary from Abraham Lincoln.<p>Some modern sources, referencing those:<p>Technology in Society<p>1984, Vol.6(4):263–284, doi:10.1016&#x2F;0160-791X(84)90022-8
&quot;High technology and job loss&quot;, Russell W. Rumberger
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;31.184.194.81&#x2F;10.1016&#x2F;0160-791X(84)90022-8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;31.184.194.81&#x2F;10.1016&#x2F;0160-791X(84)90022-8</a><p>Robert Struble Jr, (1993) &quot;Towards a Structural Solution to Unemployment&quot;, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 20 Iss: 11, pp.15 - 26<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;31.184.194.81&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dx.doi.org&#x2F;10.1108&#x2F;03068299310046063" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;31.184.194.81&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dx.doi.org&#x2F;10.1108&#x2F;0306829931004...</a>