alt Hacker NewsWe live in a big modern world there some options that are not really available. As if we are stuck in a really wide raging river. We are not going to be going upstream regardless our desires. Saying stop I want out is not really an option.
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throwaway_7274 • today at 7:43 PM
I don’t really understand this. Sometimes I see even stronger versions of this sentiment, that amount to saying, hey, it’s inevitable, so you might as well be e/acc. But you can just not do things. Societies can just not do things. They used to know this. We don’t have to admit the neoliberal Nuremberg defense of “I was just following incentives.”
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Of course it is. We do that for lots of technologies that are considered too risky, including weapons, cryptographic algorithms, substances, and way more