@hellomiakodaMiakoda it's such a weird inversion from the scenarios fiction warned us to expect.... we used to say we're not worried about Terminators, we're worried about what people would order autonomous weapons to do.

• but the real machine isn't even a good tool for DOING anything, it mostly just destroys people's ability to reason... which means that, in effect, it represents people's choice to forego reason.

like Hyde's potion, the only thing it really gives them is permission