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I take your point, but this feels pretty defeatist to me. I don’t personally believe that “we have not historically done this well, if at all” is a good reason
by oliveshell 3y ago
I take your point, but this feels pretty defeatist to me.
I don’t personally believe that “we have not historically done this well, if at all” is a good reason to stop trying to manage the negative externalities of emerging technology— quite the opposite, in my opinion.
- 13years 3y agoHowever, "the future technology is completely unpredictable and we don't understand it" is probably a fairly good reason we will only make worse mistakes in that regard going forward.