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Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don__ have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It__ all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.
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Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don__ have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It__ all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.

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