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The change you wish to be in the world is, by design, structurally implausible

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We, as technologists, have got to stop humoring the tendency of non-tech muggles to foist their inability to resolve social value clashes onto tech design. “Build us a telephone that only allows nice words!” No, you stupid muggle, you do NOT actually want that.

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