thread: 2006-09-08 : Ben on breaking tradition
On 2006-09-08, Ben Lehman wrote:
Let me expand on the live fiction point some more:
These things (story-making mechanisms?) are dangerous. As our design tools get better and better, they just get more and more dangerous. That that they haven't been used for horrible evil is largely due to our obscurity, not because of lack of capability.
Imagine Dogs in the Vineyard or Sorcerer in the hands of a white supremacist group, or a theocratic terrorist movement. Imagine it as a recruiting and indoctrination tool. Imagine it used by the leaders to create new doctrine and new agendas. New stories.
Scary, isn't it?
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—Ben
