Comment by nibbula

The discoverer of Lisp spent some of his later years trying to get people to consider things like: what will be your response the first time AI kills a human child, yet despite nearly a century of fiction warning about the problems of technological progress, modern people have looked at or played through dystopian visions and responded "That looks fun. Let's try it.", not realizing that they won't be the hero, but rather the suffering NPC.