Along side of this theory is "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis, which more artistically proposes that ecosystem management with disc

Along side of this theory is "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis, which more artistically proposes that ecosystem management with discrete measurement was the way to manage complex dilemmas. Ultimately he concludes that each change to the ecosystem so fundamentally changes its components (which couldn't really be measured in the first place) such that the problem erratically changes and outcomes are unpredictable. He uses this to suppose that AI is a failed attempt to optimize these sort-of-NP complete problems of cooperation.