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by thendrill 1049 days ago
Well... We still can not agree if...

Technology has to be protected from dumb people, or is it worth protecting dumb people from technology....

2 comments

If anything, it’s the smart people that need to be protected from technology, because Silicon Valley is obsessed with pulling them down into a Harrison Bergeron nightmare where they’re absorbed into the same modeled probability distribution as the rest of the population to better sell them ads (outliers are bad for profits.)
What do you even mean by this comment? Have you considered the possibility that people are smart in ways that you are not considering, rather than just labeling it “dumb”?
Have you considered ... in ways that you are not considering...?

I am pretty confident they haven't. Sounds like you've set yourself up for a reverse "true scotsman" here ;)

Nice catch, thanks for pointing it out.