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skeeter2020

How the hell do such intelligent people (or is it BECAUSE of their ability to bend minds, including their own) reconcile "I believe this is dangerous and wrong" with "I am actively working towards this"? I get changing your perspective, but the majority seem to be able to simultaneously hold personal beliefs and work that are diametrically opposed.

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If we don’t create the torment nexus first, someone less responsible will build the torment nexus. The only ethical choice is for us to create the torment nexus before anyone else.

Yea, it's that same stupid stochastic reasoning that powers those EA fuckers.

Imagine being a developer of the torment nexus only to be beaten to the IPO by the rival torment nexus company.

It’s not hard to rectify at all. Once you accept that we (humans) are not logical or consistent, and you couple that with the gobs of money these companies pay, blamo.

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