• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      It’s legit scary to see tech approach the point where private companies might develop systems that could and in some way are endangering humanity as a species, and all their decision-makers are concerned with is corporate success.

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        5 months ago

        … to see tech approach the point…

        Big oil would like a word, alstarting in 1950 at least.

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          5 months ago

          Not to mention literally researching global warming before anyone else bothered, verifying it is happening and that humanity is causing it, then spending decades gaslighting our entire species into widely believing it isn’t.