Thanks. After I wrote it a friend said "I think you just gave people permission to do things that they would've felt bad about otherwise." I think he was right, in a way. On the other hand, not everything is obvious to everyone, and it's been 20 years. Regardless of whether people have read the book, the knowledge of these things as grown since then.
Applied to AI I think it would be something like - ease of development increases the complexity attempted.