Sublime

They appear to want some of the same things most of us want: recognition from their peers and communities and better lives for the people they care about. Being

recent advances in human history would have been possible without organizations as vehicles for human collaboration.

“toy” models of economies—simple models that are so abstract they bear little resemblance to reality.

In economics the particles, that is, agents, are endowed with some kind of foresight. Their image of the future affects the present.

This paradox of comprehension was articulated explicitly by a great physicist of an earlier age: “Sir Isaac Newton, when asked what he thought of the infatuations of the people, answered that he could calculate the motions of erratic bodies, but not the madness of a multitude” (quoted from The Church of England Quarterly Review, 1850).

There have, of course, been several physicists who made extremely successful forays into biology, the most spectacular of which was probably Francis Crick, who with James Watson determined the structure of DNA,

And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful s