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		fluidcruft on Jan 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New police radars can 'see' inside homes > ... trying to keep technologies bottled up as "forbidden knowledge" is at best only a delaying tactic ... > ... a real risk that technology will happen faster than our ability to assimilate those technologies ... > ... the alternative is to give into natural selection as yet another species that didn't adapt to its environment fast enough. I guess if you came across a hole in the dike, the small thing you can change would be to grab a jackhammer?

pdkl95 on Jan 20, 2015 [–]

That would depend on the purpose of the dike... and who/what was downstream.

That said, see my profile for a description of "PDKL 95". There is a good chance I'd grab the jackhammer if it would somehow lead to a useful re-framing of the consensual hallucination.

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