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Comment Re:I found myself hoping (Score 1) 98

To rephrase him;

What matters is not the power of any given gun, but how people choose to apply it to achieve their goals. We need to get beyond the arguments of bad vs good and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our "theory of life" that accounts for humans being equipped with these new power amplifier tools.

Comment Re:I've Got Some Bad News for You, Sunshine (Score 4, Insightful) 66

But he still had to go there, had to bring a lot of people, had to get everyone to keep quiet about how they did it, etc.

In the time it's taken me to write this someone could write a prompt to create an entire video of a nuke hitting New York and sharing it all over the internet for everyone to immediately see, and in the time it took you to read it he could prompt another video for Los Angeles. There's a very massive difference in scope.

Comment Modern drug dealer (Score 5, Insightful) 124

Their logic is so out of touch with what the problem was.

"Hey, guys, this 'heroin' thing seems to be having a really bad effect on the people that take it. Like, addiction and insanity and such. Maybe we should stop selling it?"

"Well Bob, you see, our A/B testing shows that the people taking heroin keep coming back for more, so we're gonna keep selling it."

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