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Unless we cut off the chain of responsibility somewhere, the creators of the programming language, the computer and its components, as well as the people who have designed the computer and those who mined the required minerals are responsible as well.


> Unless we cut off the chain of responsibility somewhere

We can do that. We do it all the time, assigning varying levels of blame to different parties for different things.

Determining between proximal and ultimate causes, or assigning more weight to one cause or another, is not some impossible burden.


Good thing nobody is suggesting we *checks notes* jail silica miners for building the Deepfake Offensive Toolkit.




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