The Hammonds pardon strikes me as overall a more ominous sign than the Kavanaugh appointment.
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Certainly the government has tremendous power. It funded nuclear and space and computing tech. It just can’t dictate socially “desirable” results except in the narrow sense of moving $ from guns to cancer research.
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Governing science and tech is fundamentally different from governing law and order or taxes or water supply. When you’re playing with the unknown, there’s a basic limit to dictating the outcomes
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The worries are well-founded. The idea that philosophers and poets can systematically do things to mitigate them is not. The frontier of science/tech seems to be a leveler of human pretenses to expertise/authority.
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Ah, and my point is precisely that philosophers and governments have historically proven to go Evil far more easily by overestimating their ability to govern Prometheus for “good”
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