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This is sarcastically-stated but an excellent point, and an honest answer will come up with a vanishingly small list. We geeks may think we care about Important Things, but our industry cares for nothing but money and power — morality is a hindrance to the accumulation of those.

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Worse, they exploit our curiosity and open-mindedness to build their empires for them. Which we willingly do because cool shiny shit.

Nerd-sniping as a weapon of oppression

A lot of it is simply that they are far more open to the idea of curiousity as having value than most people.

> cool shiny shit

You mean absurdly high compensation for very comfortable, low-stress office work? People work to feed their families, not just because working is 'cool'.

llm made this post?

Because of the em-dash? Unfortunately, some writing hipsters created this "uh actually we were writing emdashes first, it's dramatic increase of use since llm proliferation in the 2020s shouldn't mean we can't use it!" movement. This has lead to purposeful use of emdashes to bait people to call them lllms. You can tell because the spaces around it most likely is because they had to copy and paste it from somewhere else as they (like most humans on non macs) don't actually know how to write an emdash otherwise.

Wow, that’s some pretty farfetched speculation. I’ve been using double-dash as punctuation since I started writing on a computer in the 1980s. I like that MacOS connects them for me.

Consider for a moment how different your assumptions are from reality. Can you learn from that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4rRptTdQI

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