> I have a proposal for a great filter: complexity. That's one of the interpretations of Gibson's "Jackpot" - that there's just too much potentially dangerous

> I have a proposal for a great filter: complexity. That's one of the interpretations of Gibson's "Jackpot" - that there's just too much potentially dangerous stuff going on, interacting in too many ways to manage. Though I tend to identify global warming (and related environmental damage like deforestation) as the "core" problem at the center of that tangle.