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Video games, entertainment, and avatars seems like the big ones.

If that is really the reason then this is insane and everyone involved should put their keyboards down and stop what they are doing.

This would be as if we invented and sold nuclear weapons to dig out quarry mines faster. The inconvenience it saves us quickly disappears into the overwhelming shadow of the enormous harm now enabled.

> This would be as if we invented and sold nuclear weapons to dig out quarry mines faster.

”Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes.”[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

Finding a mundane benign use for a terrible tool is good. Creating a terrible tool for a mundane benign purpose is reckless insanity.

Yeah, and it was terminated. Much harder to put this genie back in the bottle.

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