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An example of a past technology that there was substantial motivation to control would be napster. It changed overtime, and you could never really control online privacy. Once local models are good enough, I don't really see how you can control that.

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You control dogs by making their owners responsible.

If your supposed dogs are really gods, you reintroduced slavery under very unwise circumstances.

In this analogy, the dogs understand how their leashes, fences, etc. work better than their owners. And you need only take a trip to the park to see how many owners let their dogs walk around without a leash.

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