1000 bricks together act like one big brick.
- 1000 bricks together act like one big brick.
- But 1000 people together don't act like one big person.
- A system is modular if it can be decomposed into components that then can be linearly combined dependably.
- In contrast, systems with emergence are complex.
- The components interact in non-linear, multiplicative ways.
- Modern society acts like most things are modular, but actually most things are complex.
- Anthropic's Economic Report falls into this trap.