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you have provided some of the water drops of counterexamples in an ocean of cooperatively used technology. Fire, buildings, wheels, hammers. You are so used to
by wegfawefgawefg 3y ago
you have provided some of the water drops of counterexamples in an ocean of cooperatively used technology. Fire, buildings, wheels, hammers. You are so used to this world of assymetrically positively used technology that you dont even notice it.
I would not forego the internet itself in fear of adtech existing. Acceptable consequence. worth it. same for implants. All of the unimaginable malicious avenues provided by the internet,and I still would rather it exist amd be ubiquitous than not.
- roarcher 3y agoAs would I, and I work in tech myself. Technology is a wonderful thing, when used wisely. My argument is not that technology is bad. It's that every technology isn't automatically good just because it's technology and "people are nice". There's a reason nerve agents aren't available over the counter at your local pharmacy.
- wegfawefgawefg 3y agoI believe that almost every technology is net good. The reason i believe that is i fundamentally believe almost all people are selfish semi rational and cooperative by default. And I think that positive behavioural inclination may have evolved as a solution to an environment that required game theory like itterated cooperation, where the emergent solution was like 90% cooperative actors and 10% exploititive actors. Even if that were not true, this particular technology is a platform, a medium for other technologies, and so I suspect the distribution of its use and misuse will be nearly identical to all the other similar technologies, such as paper, phones, the internet, etc