“Changing history beats deleting it”
Agree
- Can fix atrocities and suffering
- Learn from mistakes by improving them
- Selective editing keeps good parts
- Opportunity to course-correct humanity
- Delete means losing all lessons
Disagree
- Unintended consequences are unpredictable
- Clean slate might be better
- Who decides what to change
- Current reality erased either way
- Deleting prevents all the suffering
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