Ask HN: All this technology – what's the goal?

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How will technology teach us to live a life of virtue? It seems nowadays our technology is raising questions about ethics, security etc. However, can we believe the fact we are becoming better as human beings along this path? How can we quantify that?

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Its a complicated topic. At one level the tech is neutral and is just a tool, at another it engenders the worst forms of thought-control and coercion.

It should be fairly obvious that we are heading towards CCP-style social-credit score.

Those of low social credit score will appear as 'red dots' on your map, and interacting with those 'red dots' will lower your social credit score.

Maybe work out a way to measure whether people are generating energy in others or draining energy in others when they use tech. Starting bottom up, as in the people immediately around you and then expanding that circle.

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