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JohnFen 12 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator...

> tech advancements = improvements of life for the whole humanity

Yes, that equation is inaccurate. Tech advancements mean more powerful tools. Tools that can be used to improve things or can just as easily be used to make things worse.

The entire history of mankind indicates that it will always end up being a mix of both.

johnnyanmac 11 months ago [–]

So you do agree that tech advancement could in fact slow or stop the apocalypse? That's all they were getting at.

Unless you want to argue that the lion's share of tech advancements instead doomed humanity.

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