[reducesuffering]

And social media manipulation is just registers and bytes, wait no, sand and electrons.

[isaacremuant]

Just because you can do something with technology doesn't mean the problem is technology itself. It's like newspapers. Printing them I technology and allows all kind of things. If you're of the authoritarian mindset, you'll want to control it all out of some stated fear, but you can do that for everything.

[friendzis]

If you can do something with technology, that something is part of risk assessment. Authoritarianism is irrelevant, that's engineering.