OK - emergent evil may be my new favorite idea. I’ve generally thought about the banality of evil as enough but emergent behavior seems like a better construct
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I think they’re different though. A system might have neither, either, or both.
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Are you subtweeting about Facebook?

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Nope
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Embed morality within your code
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“Evil” as a quality of humans is only useful for creating simplistic narratives. It has no predictive value and a negative understanding value. You’re basically trying to write the script of the movie about the apocalypse
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It’s convenient shorthand for consensus net negative potentiality or something
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McCain/ the American presidency/ nation-state?
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Every organization with plausible deniability... It's like a voltage difference
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every relationship with it has this potential evil energy.. which as you say may only manifest at a distant scale
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