Authorities in Israel and Australia imposed new Covid-19 restrictions in response to the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus, while India warned of a worrying new mutation, emphasizing how the morphing pathogen continues to challenge a return to pre-pandemic life world-wide…
“The entrance of the Delta variant has changed the transmission dynamics,” said Prof. Balicer, who is also the chief innovation officer for Israel’s largest health-management organization, Clalit.
This should be a warning to all would-be controllers of complex systems, those who would bio-engineer, climate-engineer, social-engineer and build AI systems whose ultimate behavior we can’t even predict. Complexity outpaces control.
This is why politicians who brandish F-15s and nukes as domestic political arguments are fools. If they should use them the consequences are incalculable. The biggest threat to humanity are power hungry bureaucrats in China and the West who imagine they can control the world.