The paper Situational Awareness - The Decade Ahead paints an extraordinary picture of the next decade, one where AI transforms almost every aspect of society at a breakneck pace. It's incredibly breathtaking in scope and implication, and well worth a read, as well as provoking the question as to whether change can really happen as rapidly as it claims. Let's ask that question, and propose a "Societal Speed Limit" which I think will be the ultimate decider of the pace of AI-driven change.

Anyone got any good examples of organisations which have substantially simplified themselves?? Because I think there's a fascinating popular social science book waiting to written here (similar to e.g., Collapse). But, the missing piece is good case studies or examples. In the meantime, here's the setup for I mean by complexity, and why I think it's a real problem that we need to work out how solve, without using wars.