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I strongly disagree with this. Taken to its extreme, A machine where you can push a button and kill everybody everywhere is a fundamentally immoral technology.

• nine_k 5y ago
  A technology that can affect all people on Earth is rarely strongly limited to killing people. Look at explosives. They can be used to kill and maim people at scale, and also to build roads and tunnels in mountains. Look at viruses, think of all the diseases they cause. Now also look at viral vectors that deliver medicines into patient cells, including some of the modern anti-COVID vaccines. Look at cryptography. If laws of nature are not devoid of ethics, take any fundamental law, say, Newton's laws, or classical electrodynamics, or general relativity, anything from mathematics, and try to put it anywhere in the alignment matrix but the "true neutral" cell. Explain your answer — I will gladly listen! (Not ironically.) And pray don't screw nature. There were numerous attempts, all ended badly, just look around. You are a part of nature, by screwing nature, you also screw yourself (which is of course your inalienable right), and, sadly, others around you.