The Hammonds pardon strikes me as overall a more ominous sign than the Kavanaugh appointment.
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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