The Falsifiable Hypothesis About the Internet

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Mark Dorkesh: We're already in a situation where Sidney Bing threatened to blackmail, bribe and kill people. How do we know when we are getting into a danger zone? These questions go mainly unanswered apart from, "you can't prove it won't happen," he says. He asks if technologist and venture capitalist like Marx should be the most open to the possibility that there will be big, unprecedented changes whose possibility we can't immediately verify.

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