“Look at these people. Would you deny them their bright neon future of peace and social justice based on a few errant bits of data?”

“It’s not one piece of data, nor a single simulation or sample. Do you think I’d be so hasty or stupid as not to check my work? The System will lead to economic and social collapse and either anarchy or autocracy.”

“The idea that a theoretical model knows better than our politicians, our political scientists, our think tanks…it smacks of technological heresy.”

“Theorists are human. They’re invested in a way that a data model never can be. The System is inherently flawed, and would be disastrous to implement.

“Don’t you see? The System is immortality.”

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