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1. wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 14:59:20 JST wet forest moon folklorist

   “AI is just a tool, it is silly to debate the morality of a tool” 🤔

   “Assault rifles are just a tool, it is silly to debate the morality of a tool”

   “The atom bomb was just a tool, it is silly to debate the morality of a tool”

   • Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 14:59:47 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     the precautionary principle is an extraordinary technology itself: it says that until we can prove an invention will not be more harmful than helpful, we should hold back on sending that invention to market

     I’d argue the one technology humans most desperately need to invent is the ability for collective restraint on behalf of the common good

   • wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 14:59:48 JST wet forest moon folklorist

     in reply to

     pay attention to people who want to foreclose debate on the moral implications of consequential technologies.

     the first of our rights to be lost is always our right to defend our own logic

     Aral Balkan repeated this.