Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by cercatrova on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:28PM
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I don't like when people try to stop or slow down technological innovation. Technologies are just tools, a nuclear bomb could just as easily have been made into a nuclear power plant. But to fully restrict them shows a lack of foresight. Yes, recommender systems can be used for bad, as yesterday, but they can also be good.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by ocdtrekkie on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:56AM
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It's likely unrestricted technological innovation will inevitably cause the end of the human species, and your own example demonstrates why: In our rush to create the nuclear bomb, several times we came close to obliterating all life on earth due to simple mistakes. Several times, the hesitation of one man was the only thing that prevented our planet's complete annihilation.
The nuclear bomb is exactly why we need to block "innovation" that causes more harm than good.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by cercatrova on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:01PM
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And yet nuclear energy is one of the highest latent energy sources we have, orders of magnitude above solar, wind, coal and so on. If we blocked progress, then we'd have never discovered this.
The question is, how do you know something is bad before developing it? You oftentimes can't put the genie back in the bottle.