In complex environments, single-lens thinking is dangerous.

You'll likely focus on only one dimension and ignore the others, and dangerous things likely lurk outside your vision.

What you need is a meta-lens: a lens that inherently includes a diversity of lenses.

For example, my friend Anthea Roberts' Six Faces.

A meta-lense helps you look at a problem from many angles and then integrate them.

Meta-lenses are structurally better than singular lenses in complex environments.

Of course, over time you want to use multiple meta-lenses; a single meta-lens is still dangerous, just an order of magnitude less dangerous than a non-meta-lens.

Meta-lenses take time and effort to apply.

They require patience, comfort with abstraction, openness to finding disconfirming evidence.

This takes time–if you're mad or scared or stressed you won't feel like it's available to you.

AI is patient and very comfortable with abstraction, and can be a useful tool to help apply meta-lenses.