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Re:Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes by easton on Sunday October 26, 2025 @08:01PM (#45716108)
And the Replicator was locked out from producing mass amounts of unhealthy food (unless you told it not to).

Maybe the lesson we should learn is our hardware should come with built in limits on use to keep our brains intact? That sounds dystopian.

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Re:Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes by b00ty4breakfast on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @03:54AM (#45730156)
the freedom to be able to choose to engorge yourself on twinkies is maybe a good thing, the fact that some folks are willing and able to indulge that impulse is probably less good
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Re:Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes by jonfw on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:56AM (#45732960)
> the freedom to be able to choose to engorge yourself on twinkies is maybe a good thing

In isolation, freedom is wonderful. In practice, maybe not? If a member of the star trek crew abused twinkies to the extent that they were lethargic or unhealthy, it would negatively impact the mission.

There is some compromise between freedoms and social resposibility

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Re:Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes by Throaway152 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @10:11PM (#45741830)
Yes, and what if we saw what happened on Ferengi ships, with Ferengi replicators? Perhaps those are controlled by profit-seeking corporations, and have no such limits in the name of "personal freedom?" ;)
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