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by samdunham 807 days ago
Mentioning it only briefly seems a bit Pollyanna to me. Couching this as mostly a good thing is overlooking the terrifying implications it would have in the "wrong" hands. And that overlooks the fundamental notion of there being "right" and "wrong" ways of thinking.
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Absolutely. That was the motivation for my writing of my perspective of the study. It was trending on Twitter a couple days ago to the cheerful praise of mostly everyone.

I hoped to express the Orwellian concerns of use of such capability. I'm a bit dismayed at how this apparently isn't an obvious concern.