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Video games, entertainment, and avatars seems like the big ones.

• HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
  If that is really the reason then this is insane and everyone involved should put their keyboards down and stop what they are doing. This would be as if we invented and sold nuclear weapons to dig out quarry mines faster. The inconvenience it saves us quickly disappears into the overwhelming shadow of the enormous harm now enabled.
  • ImPostingOnHN 2y ago
    > This would be as if we invented and sold nuclear weapons to dig out quarry mines faster. ”Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes.”[0] 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
    • HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
      Finding a mundane benign use for a terrible tool is good. Creating a terrible tool for a mundane benign purpose is reckless insanity.
    • wumeow 2y ago
      Yeah, and it was terminated. Much harder to put this genie back in the bottle.