The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.
With technological advances, there's a very natural curve between cost and complexity and adoption. When the cost and complexity are high, the adoption rate is - let's call it 'modest.'