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by aporetics 1280 days ago
Interesting, but that’s just a proximal cause.

The question is what will it take for us all, collectively, to refrain from using whatever is it hand for whatever we happen to desire. Out of respect for what?

Most of the time this kind of self restraint does not really seem conceivable. Instead, in debates like this, we’ll defer to emissions and sequestration data, without ever confronting what what it is that led us to blithely create and deploy machines like this and shrug off the damage.

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> what will it take for us all, collectively, to refrain from using whatever is it hand for whatever we happen to desire

Evolving to a new species entirely. What you described is one of the most fundamental attributes of homo sapiens.

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