As an aside: > in an important sense, society itself is a form of advanced intelligence This made me think of Charles Stross' observation that Corporations (a

As an aside: > in an important sense, society itself is a form of advanced intelligence This made me think of Charles Stross' observation that Corporations (and bureaucracies and basically any rule-based organizations) are a form of artificial intelligence. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/12/artificial-intelligence-threat.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/12/artific... Come to think of it, the whole article is rather pertinent to this thread.