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by juleiie 12 days ago
Morality is very good, please always obey its principles.

You must be aware though that some people will stab you in the back if the reward is bigger than widely understood consequences. I mean no wonder society is wired to hate that, this is a true critical code execution vulnerability that will never be patched.

This is also the reason why we have decentralised governance systems such as democracy. It isn’t about preventing psychopaths, it’s about pitting them against each other.

It’s not about having zero bombs. It’s about having enough bombs to destroy everything if someone drops a single one.

That’s the pattern and framework of how to tame warring monkeys into skyscraper builders.

When an earthquake forms a mountain it doesn’t do this consciously from what we know. The same is true for skyscrapers. Of course on an individual level there is an illusion of signing papers, a development plan. But what really happened was two ambitions colliding in massive clash and the resulting force just so happens to point up in the sky.