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There is a strand of [[High modernism|high-modernist]] thought<ref>For more on high-modernism see {{br|The Death and Life of Great American Cities}} and {{br|Seeing Like a State}}</ref> that optimised human interaction can be derived mathematically from data science: that all that has stopped it till now is the want of a sufficiently powerful machine to run the calculations. | There is a strand of [[High modernism|high-modernist]] thought<ref>For more on high-modernism see {{br|The Death and Life of Great American Cities}} and {{br|Seeing Like a State}}</ref> that optimised human interaction can be derived mathematically from data science: that all that has stopped it till now is the want of a sufficiently powerful machine to run the calculations. | ||
This is a generalisation, but it finds expression in the | This is a generalisation, but it finds expression in the [[The Singularity is Near|nearby singularity]], the [[simulation hypothesis]] the more breathless aspirations for [[AI]], [[Blockchain]] maximalism, and the slack-jawed wonder with which thought leaders regard [[Alpha Go]]. | ||
The underlying premise: the universe is monstrously complicated, but fundamentally bounded, [[finite]] and probabilistic. It is not [[complex]]. | The underlying premise: the universe is monstrously complicated, but fundamentally bounded, [[finite]] and probabilistic. It is not [[complex]]. | ||