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by yodon 335 days ago
One day you'll look back on how this technology is being used for actual real evil, and have to deal with the fact that your early naivety about the "value" you were bringing helped get us to that point.
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Naïveté, and, IMO, a necessary deliberate desire to look the other way.

“Hey, I’d love to see the ahem ‘qualified leads’ looking at this crisis pregnancy center website, or at the Border Patrol website, or at the IRS tax deduction FAQ website.”

It’s so incredibly easy to imagine the ways this will be abused.