I realized what bothers me about @vitalik.eth d/acc essay. Even though it is optimistic, it shares with the pessimist side a presumption that technology, as an evolutionary process, *can* be governed according to some notion of human intent.

“Tech can/cannot be governed” is a bigger divide than optimism/pessimism

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But insofar as ‘technology’ (term that needs to be deprecated) is configurations of labour and people it is always inherently governed. Granted, physical laws aren’t governed, but people and labour always are. The only variable is form.