“The problems occur when people try to solve ‘wide’ problems using ‘narrow’ thinking. [[John Maynard Keynes|Keynes]] once said, ‘**It is better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong’**, and evolution seems to be on his side. The risk with the growing use of cheap computational power is that it encourages us to take a simple, mathematically expressible part of a complicated question, solve it to a high degree of mathematical precision, **and assume we have solved the whole problem**. --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[ai-problems]] , [[economics]] , **Source** -- [[202407221554 - B - Alchemy]]