Timeliness of AI

AI seems to have a certain providence and kairos like quality of arriving in the knick of time to address zeitgeist challenges... a couple initial ones: state capacity broadly, permitting specifically, meta-science reproducibility... in particular AI as a tool to leverage archival time (H/T Sachin) seems purpose situated for the growing complexity of contemporary life. It's like the long twentienth century and its accretion of rational-legal rules that made up the modernity machine needed a broom to clean up the legacy system writ large.

Flagging as a loose though to return to...