@littletecky@our.privacymatters.pro
Indeed… you make such a choice but then…
'And you, young engineer, you who dream of improving the lot of the workers by the application of science to industry — what a sad disappointment, what terrible disillusions await you! You devote the useful energy of your mind to working out the scheme of a railway which, running along the brink of precipices and burrowing into the very heart of mountains of granite, will bind together two countries which nature has separated. But once at work, you see whole regiments of workers decimated by privations and sickness in this dark tunnel — you see others of them returning home carrying with them, maybe, a few pence, and the undoubted seeds of consumption; you see human corpses — the results of a grovelling greed — as landmarks along each yard of your road; and, when the railroad is finished, you see, lastly, that it becomes the highway for the artillery of an invading army...'
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-an-appeal-to-the-young
Which is why systems matter… and not just intentions.
[A more up to date example would be Satya Nadella. I doubt he's driven by malice and malign intentions... quite the opposite if anything. Yet I doubt anyone can deny the harm that man's pursuit of AI has done:
MicroSlop Doubles Down on AI
https://youtu.be/cNti7mDsO-k ]
