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The line is not so clear as you are indicating. If I produce a system that makes 7 billion people feel slightly more depressed, then that system will in all probability contributed to a non-zero number of suicides. The unfortunate matter is that with fantastical scale there comes a need for systems that can understand the long tail of outcomes because there are real lives and impacts in the tails.


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