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The transition from mechanical to smart rifle sights is analogous to the historical transition from horses to cars—with smart technological systems enabling capabilities that were impossible with previous mechanical approaches, no matter how well-optimized.

Technology is neither inherently good nor bad; the internet brought enormous benefits to minorities (Harari met his husband on an early LGBT dating site in Israel), but the question is always whether technology is used for human purposes or whether humans are used for the technology's purposes.

Technology including AI systems exhibits reproduction through human copying of ideas across generations, making biological reproduction criteria already satisfied by current technology without requiring autonomous AI reproduction.