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It's you: A swarm of ~37 trillion cooperating nanobots, each one complex beyond human understanding, constructing and animating a titanic mobile megafortress that shambling across a planet consumed by a prehistoric grey-goo event.


It's not me, because I'm human, and that's not.

Why does that matter? Isn't it all the same? No, because I'm human, and I can make special exceptions for humans.

Isn't that perfect hypocrisy? Yes, but I'm human, and it's okay because I get to decide what's okay and I say it's okay because I'm human.

See also: why can I eat a burger but Jeffrey Dahmer went to prison?




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