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If we did that, we'd still be riding horses. Mistakes are inherent to progress; we aren't going to ban progress because we don't know, you acquire knowledge by doing and making mistakes.



I agree with you, and I want to see us continue to make progress, though I don't think we need to be injecting nitrogen into clouds so people can have better skiing.

That's not progress, that's excess.


> That's not progress, that's excess.

Says you, those wanting to ski have a different opinion, who are you to prevent other people from deciding what they consider progress? You sound like a Luddite from old England railing against technology.


> who are you to prevent other people from deciding what they consider progress?

Obviously it's not up to me personally, but I'm someone that cares about the future, and not messing with things we don't understand.

>* You sound like a Luddite from old England railing against technology.*

That's an interesting thing to say, as I'm a Software Engineer, and one of the most "techie" people I know.


> That's an interesting thing to say, as I'm a Software Engineer, and one of the most "techie" people I know.

And yet your default opinion is don't touch things we don't understand, which prevents us from ever understanding them; you must see how illogical that is.




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