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We’re living good lives in their metropolis of plutonium because we’re not yet fully aware of the consequences. Rather like how a hundred years ago people happ
by mattkevan 7y ago
We’re living good lives in their metropolis of plutonium because we’re not yet fully aware of the consequences.
Rather like how a hundred years ago people happily put radium in toothpaste and soap. Nothing better than a healthy glow to your morning routine - until the consequences arrive.
What will be the result of building the sort of global, hyper-targeted surveillance and propaganda machines spearheaded by google and Facebook, and will our descendants think we’re as dangerously naive as we do about those who made radioactive chocolate?
- drdeadringer 7y agoI suggest you increase your chocolate rations from 25 grams to 20 grams, radioactivity or not.
- patcon 7y agoI do appreciate what you're saying here, so thank you. Don't get me wrong, I resist Google with all my might, and have actively organized against Sidewalk Labs in my city, and other projects from them. But I look at Amazon's Bezos and count myself relatively lucky to be living on a timeline where the magic beans that became Google ended up in the hands of someone quite UNLIKE him. Sinking money into moonshots (though sometimes misguided) and a diversity of experiments; that is much better than Bezos' unartful "growth above all else" mentality.