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I think it is greyer than this.

Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover, distasteful as they are, I believe acted in what they would claim is good faith. The issue isn't that someone is a bad actor. It is that they believe they are a good actor and are busy stripping away others' rights in their pursuit.



Very nearly everybody -- even bad people -- consider themselves one of the "good guys".


Maybe in their minds they thought the end justified the means, but there's no way anyone, even themselves, mistakes those means for good faith.


Sure. the question was whether AI will continue to enable mass spying and making the affordability of mass spying a tool humans rely on.

They will. It will. We will see that erosion.




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