[hkpack]

I think for the most part we can only say retrospectively, what was worth doing.

Facebook was created to connect people and ended up facilitating genocide.

Breakthrough in private health-improving tech can bring unfathomed gap between rich and poor.

We can only speculate where new developments such as AI will lead us.

[jmeister]

>Facebook was created to connect people and ended up facilitating genocide.

Throwing out the baby with the bath water here. How many lost friendships were recovered through FB? In my network of immigrants and refugees: countless.

>Breakthrough in private health-improving tech can bring unfathomed gap between rich and poor.

This is absurd. Why is the gap more important than the absolute level of the poor? All medical tech began as expensive and only for the rich.

[bee_rider]

"Throwing out the baby with the bathwater" is an expression that's never really made sense to me. The bath isn't a permanent position, babies and bathwater aren't fundamentally inseparable, why do we want to throw out the bathwater in the first place, is it even safe for the baby?

In the case of Facebook, the bath is toxic, we should remove the baby from the bathwater, toss out the bathwater, and then figure out what's going on (maybe we can just refresh the bath, maybe we need to figure out a regulatory framework for designing baths).

[baq]

history of civilization is a history of people making other people miserable using whatever tools available. this _maybe_ changed a bit in the second half of XX century... looks like we're back to usual programming nowadays.

[lupire]

Was genocide so rare before Facebook?

The 1990s Rwandan genocide was coordinated by 1-way radio.