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“What sent them to the bottom wasn’t my so-called errors of judgement, or my so-called lack of humanity or my so-called incapacity to get my head round their suffering.”
― Small Boat
― Small Boat
“The induction had waxed long on the topic of robots and other automated helpmates replacing human labour, but he hadn’t realised that, back in the past, humans had worked so hard to live like robots. The endless round of tasks, the queuing, the utter repetitiveness of these people’s lives. They must, Uncharles predicted, be so grateful to have such lives designed for them. How good it must be to have no choices or options.”
― Service Model
― Service Model
“providing very high levels of service coupled with a very low, albeit nonzero, level of murder.”
― Service Model
― Service Model
“But the fact is that no one is prepared to admit it’s an illusion, because the illusion hides the exact opposite, namely that everyone is guilty.”
― Small Boat
― Small Boat
“They were part of the problem, even though they never actively did bad things to people. They just benefited from all the bad things that had been done.”
― Service Model
― Service Model
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