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I really hope we are both wrong, but I agree with you. I worked in healthcare and health insurance, and I have a unique perspective on the mass of regulations from across the US. I see the same patterns in many areas, government, finance, manufacturing and more. I think that as things have evolved more and more quickly (rate of technological change, complexity of systems, increasing amounts of information/data, amount of knowledge and requisite volume and velocity of learning required to keep up), it has surpassed our ability to absorb/reason effectively and it continues to get worse. I think the reason humanity is struggling to try to get AI (to help us carry the load) is related. I think that there is a trend here, at least in Western culture, we can see manifested by the size of industries. If you look at the biggest industries contribution to GDP, they are also some of the most complex industries[1]. It seems that, among other things, when you have many individual players and groups with competing agendas, money and complex systems, you have these issues. Perhaps it is literally survival manifesting itself in the modern age. Anecdotally, I also see people looking to the past for simpler techniques and "core" knowledge, trying to find more general, longer-term survival/coping skills that cut across time and technological change. [1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-are-the-biggest-in... |