one of the most important discoveries of 20th-century mathematics is that in general the behavior of a complex system cannot be predicted—or rather, there is no easier way to predict it than to run it and see what happens.
I assume he was referring to the undecidability of the halting problem and Rice’s Theorem, although it would be more accurate to say that the behavior of some complex systems cannot be predicted, full stop.
Really? Please elaborate—what theorems are these?
I assume he was referring to the undecidability of the halting problem and Rice’s Theorem, although it would be more accurate to say that the behavior of some complex systems cannot be predicted, full stop.