JP on Nostr: I've noticed that when a new (often not-actually-new) technology that is mostly ...
I've noticed that when a new (often not-actually-new) technology that is mostly harmful emerges, the capital systems driving it take pains to partition in the public mind an area of "clearly useful" cases where You Gotta Give Em That At Least, no matter how many harmful cases stack up against it, and that this tactic is pretty successful on certain classes of people who value being Reasonable more highly than accepting the testimony of those harmed,
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