Defeatism as Disempowerment (opens in new tab)
"Critiques of fear-based approaches need to deal with the actual arguments for danger. It sounds like the book didn't, and you don't hereYou don't make a new technology or encounter with a new species safe by ignoring its possible dangers. You must see them and engineer around themIn the historical analyses lens: This is like telling native americans that their fear based approach to the european settlers is the problem"This was left as a comment on my first essay. It makes a valid point in t...
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