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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Tired of people that respond to certain (alarming) things happening with something like, "This is really no different than [something that operates at a harmless or simply human scale]."
Quantitative differences can become qualitative differences. You can breathe in air that is humid, you can't breathe underwater. A small amount of a poison may not kill you, but enough of it will. Humans doing a thing may be fine (or tolerable), but unleashing machines to do it at vastly larger scales?