The Goal of Democracy and Information Technology

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An youal said that the goal of democracy an information technology isn't just connecting people. The real goal should be harmonizing people, and i think that goal is a really wise one in rediscovering what we really want here. Somuc ouval: One thing that you've given me some hope on is to see the massiness of sort of the us as a kind of advantage and robustness. Whereas i n have a savortith tiger that gets over optimized and way too efficient for an ecological nishe,. when that nish changes, it does not survive. And that's a new model for me thinking about authoritarian governments in the e of a.

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