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akkartik · 4299 days ago · link · · parent · post: Is the world fundamentally better off because of science and technology
Yeah, there's incompetence and malice, and a spectrum of benign neglect in between. Sometimes we have good intentions but lack foresight. Sometimes we want something and don't care about consequences. The world becomes an externality to our desires. Sometimes we think we don't care about the consequences, but if our foresight were improved we'd realize we should care.