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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
In a manner similar to how the set of all integers is smaller than the set of all real numbers, I suspect that the set of "good uses" of technology is smaller than the set of "bad uses".
Further, although I feel this less strongly, I suspect that at any given point in time, the set of all "good uses" of technology is finite. It's possible the "good uses" set grows over time, but it would always be finite.
I can't prove any of this. Just a feeling based on destruction being easier than creation, and you know, entropy.
Anyway, with this in mind, we'd always have to be ever watchful because I think It's very easy to accidentally a "bad uses" of technology when you don't have "good uses" clearly in mind. The odds are stacked against us.