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I know it's not what you are going for, but this reads like the opening to a dystopian novel - maximum control over our impulses leads to maximum coordination but at what cost? Without some disorder there is only incremental advancement and life is boring. This isn't universally good.

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incremental advancement > blowing ourselves up in exuberance

tolerable life > interesting life that ends in blow up

good enough > good

I feel "universal good" is too high a standard (pure fantasy even) for our species. I feel our species may disappear from the planet or with the planet at any arbitrary moment in the future; we seem not to recognise how fragile our existence truly is.

It feels like there’s a middle way here, between these extremes, that would be the best to follow :)

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