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> people who are pioneering the front lines of any technology understand risk better than people who write about it

That's far from guaranteed, and we have a long history of lessons written in blood that says otherwise. The people pioneering a technology are going to be self-selected to be the most optimistic about its potential and the most dismissive of its negative impacts.




this isn't chemistry in the 1800s this is computer science


What does that matter?




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