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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:
Emily Gorcenski takes on the hammer analogy here: https://emilygorcenski.com/post/our-age-of-silicon-is-collapsing/ but I think you can go farther by comparing a toolbox hammer to a medieval war hammer. If you want to drive a nail, there are hammer designs that optimize for that use. Likewise, if you want to kill someone, there are hammer designs that optimize for that, too. And the more you design for one use, the less suitable the hammer becomes for the other. They're not designed to be ethically neutral.