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wait, whenever the economy has been revolutionized in the past was there like a big decision making just prior to the revolution that made sure everything worke
by bryanrasmussen 4y ago
wait, whenever the economy has been revolutionized in the past was there like a big decision making just prior to the revolution that made sure everything worked out nice and dandy? I guess I just don't feel the two things line up.
- oliveshell 4y agoI take your point, but this feels pretty defeatist to me. I don’t personally believe that “we have not historically done this well, if at all” is a good reason to stop trying to manage the negative externalities of emerging technology— quite the opposite, in my opinion.
- 13years 4y agoHowever, "the future technology is completely unpredictable and we don't understand it" is probably a fairly good reason we will only make worse mistakes in that regard going forward.