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This more accurately captures my feelings than GP. I'm not worried about what _I'll_ do with tech. I'm worried about what the worst of us will do.
by infinitezest 2y ago
This more accurately captures my feelings than GP. I'm not worried about what _I'll_ do with tech. I'm worried about what the worst of us will do.
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- Brian_K_White 2y agoIt goes further. Not only it doesn't matter what most will do with tech, tech itself doesn't matter, even in the worst hands. Tech is irrelevant. The problem is the combination of the people who want to abuse others, and the vast majority who allow it. Or maybe better, the people who are willing to manipulate others, and the majority who are manipulable. That problem exists regardless of tech and isn't created or even amplified by tech. I say it's not even amplified by tech because techs power amplifying nature works for everyone. Every power tech gives to some asshole, it also gives to you and me to get around the asshole. The only thing we can't get around is the complacency of everyone else who allows Amazon and WalMart to erase all the other shops. A douchebag figures out a button to press, like convenience and price, and most people happily just respond to that button without thought or resistance. And once enough of them do, the environment changes and no one else has any choice but to exist in the new worse environment. The problem of most people not being skeptical and pessimistic and assuming the worst and rejecting shiny offers and propositions and ideas by default, resulting in them all being taken advantaged of and resulting in terrible systems that you and I have to live in, has always been, since there was no tech beyond mere language.