2023-08-03
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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen west.
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So I want to start out the podcast today with a question that we'll return back to near the end of the episode.
You know, you talk to some people about technology in today's world.
You know, something goes wrong, something horrible happens in the news, and you ask people what they think about it and they say, you know, technology itself is not a bad thing.
Technology is just a tool.
It's neutral, whether it's good or bad.
That just depends on how someone's using it and our job as a people.
All we can do is try to incentivize the good actors of the world and deter the behavior of the bad.
We've all heard people say this kind of stuff before, but the question is, should we really be thinking about it that way?
Should we be thinking of technology as this class of neutral things that can't be judged as good or bad?
Or is it possible that each piece of technology carries with it a type of latent morality, just given the capabilities it has to affect the society it's a part of?
You have to ask yourself, is TikTok a neutral piece of technology?
Are nuclear weapons neutral?
Do we have the luxury anymore of thinking about technology in this way?