Especially seeing as machines based on e.g. control theory (RichardKennaway) behave much more sensibly—they almost never display any urge to screw up the whole world, instead being content to sit there and tweak their needle.
This is a rather bad example—machines based on control theory can easily display an “urge” to screw up as much of the world as they can touch. Short version: slapping a PID controller onto a system gives it second order dynamics, and those can have a resonant frequency. If the random disturbance has power at the resonant frequency, the system goes into a positive feedback loop and blows up.
This is a rather bad example—machines based on control theory can easily display an “urge” to screw up as much of the world as they can touch. Short version: slapping a PID controller onto a system gives it second order dynamics, and those can have a resonant frequency. If the random disturbance has power at the resonant frequency, the system goes into a positive feedback loop and blows up.