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> Hypothesize a machine that allows you to change people's emotions directly, one that has seen mass adoption.

There absolutely are such machines and we call them computers.

> Should people be allowed to install it?

Communication is the powerful 'technology' that changes people's emotions directly. The mode of communication is a side-note. Tear down FB and none of this goes away - not because something rises from FB's ashes but because communication is a central facet of humanity.

parent starkred 6 years ago

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