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> [If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the question, I regard a nuclear attack, terrorist-generated or otherwise, as the most threatening combination of likelihood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/if-you-ask-which-of-the-scenarios-i-think-is-most-dangerous-though-i/)

[John L. Casti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-l-casti/)

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## More by John L. Casti

> [From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/from-the-1990s-onward-the-financial-sector-created-a-vast-array-of/)

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> [We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/we-see-an-ever-increasing-move-toward-inter-and-trans-disciplinary/)

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> [When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/when-the-next-big-problem-comes-online-be-it-the-euro-crisis-nuclear/)

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> [What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/what-distinguishes-a-mathematical-model-from-say-a-poem-a-song-a/)

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> [My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which would totally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/my-own-guess-is-that-quite-quickly-the-machine-intelligence-will/)

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> [Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/resilience-timing-adaptation-these-are-the-three-pillars-upon-which/)

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> [I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/i-think-that-in-the-immediate-aftermath-of-a-superhuman-machine/)

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> [I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/i-don-t-think-the-emergence-of-a-superhuman-intelligence-would-be-at/)

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> [I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/i-do-not-believe-that-there-is-any-person-method-or-tool-that-can/)

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> [The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/the-process-of-globalization-has-now-interconnected-almost-everything/)

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> [The global financial system consists of firms in the financial services sector - banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and the like - and various…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/the-global-financial-system-consists-of-firms-in-the-financial/)

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> [If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/if-the-group-has-a-negative-social-mood-believing-that-tomorrow-will/)

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> [Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/trying-to-solve-the-problem-by-creating-more-debt-is-analogous-to/)

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> [A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/a-good-analogy-is-stretching-a-rubber-band-you-can-stretch-and/)

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> [I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-casti/i-believe-is-that-we-can-forecast-the-changing-landscape-of-context/)

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