@veff for sure, and I've read the article before.

Here is an example of his poor logic:

"A while ago I wrote a post called Meditations on Moloch where I pointed out that in any complex multi-person system, the system acts according to its own chaotic incentives that don’t necessarily correspond to what any individual within the system wants. The classic example is the Prisoner’s Dilemma, which usually ends at defect-defect even though both of the two prisoners involved prefer cooperate-cooperate."

The system doesn't act. People act. Prisoner's Dilemma models a real world system. Does no-one benefit from prisoners defecting? Yes, the people running the prison benefit.

There isn't "chaos" in a system, what you have is a complex flow kind of system where what you get is kind of the lowest energy solution to what people want.