when you understand what "god" means, it's clear enough that "playing god" means making decisions with your one brain and one lifetime's experience that historically were made by vast age-long processes — every technocrat's dream. but everybody knows hubris is a coward's word
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this is why you see demands for cognitive simplicity from the very heights of human endeavor, like the current "epigenetics isn't real lol" push. if you were wrong to erase all the details, then you were wrong to push levers based on your pretty picture with the details left out
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the utopian society where everyone can be their own authoritarian high modernist!
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Replying to @mutual_ayyde
honestly it sounds like fun but i'd hate to have to live there
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