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Well, thats a narrative that has no cheerleaders.

All evil is either imposed by a outside and completely repairable, once that evil is removed.

Or all evil is eternal, unfixable and the best thing one can do is to give in.

Nobody seems to be willing to reverse engineer human brain architecture, to find reachable local optimas and best outcomes with a given, minimally changeable species. I guess it lacks the flair.

The irony is, that FB has the resources to do such a job though. They have the largest behavioral DB on the planet.

They know us better, then we know ourselves.

They could accomplish some nice Leviathancybernetics, but they do not want that.

They want to sell that knowledge as scary tales and social engineering advice to governments(palantir) and as marketing to everyone with money.



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