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Replying to @antoniogm and @WIRED
Any advanced technology that doesn't take into account (or, better, begin with) the fact that humans en masse are seriously, perhaps ineradicably flawed and fucked up, is a technology that is going to fail—or, worse, cause tremendous harm when it "succeeds."
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> be time traveler > travel to ancient China and kill dude who invented gun powder > poof out of existence because in this timeline you are a subsistence farmer and so is everyone else