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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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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Old post of mine on this stuffhttps://aeon.co/essays/what-does-the-circus-of-silicon-valley-say-about-innovation …
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Well, been professionally involved in this stuff for ~20y now, so I have rather strident opinions 
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