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"Wondering why it's hot" doesn't necessarily imply "worrying whether whatever makes it hot could be dangerous".

If you didn't know that radioactivity can cause heat, and you found a magic hot rock, do you think you'd go "I don't understand this, must be dangerous" or "I have now clue how this thing works but it's really useful, I'm gonna keep that thing"?




In today world, my default setting is pessimism - so I'd assume it was dangerous. I'm way past thinking 'magic' is harmless.

However, thinking I understand something when I really don't will probably be the end of me :-P


I think non-{science,tech,engineering} people are a considerably more pessimistic about the world than the average.




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