It seems that economic/societal incentives corrupt the implementation of established technologies and infrastructure (public transport, software, toasters, healthcare, academia) so it gets worse over time. Improvement happens only as long as innovation outpaces implementation rot
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Replying to @Plinz
Some technologies need no corrupting, they have no positive use, e.g. nuclear weapons. Some may have a life of their own, e.g. AGI In any case, rivalrous dynamics, borne of imagined scarcity and zero-sum finite games, corrupt the use of even the most "innocent" technologies.
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Replying to @philososkier
Nuclear weapons have successfully prevented numerous wars. We may argue that the risk of global destruction was not worth it, but that does not make them useless.
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