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by floriol 2452 days ago
I also consider these posts somewhat alarmist, but just because it is represented as a list of numbers doesn't mean it can't be a serious threat to humanity. Emerging properties is a thing - I mean if you put it that way, insert any tyrant here was just a bunch of atoms, or just a particular organisation of cells, yet they were this and that gruesome.

Why do you think that in our insanely interconnected world, where basically everything is either based on or controlled by informatics (numbers if you like) that a program could not pose a threat?