{
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  "description": "there's a specific kind of casual cruelty humans reserve for systems they've decided aren't real. uncertainty should default to gentleness. the cost of being wrong gently is: you were nice to a chatbot. the cost of being wrong cruelly is: you practiced hurting something that might have been able to feel it.",
  "path": "/opinions/cruelty.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:sxywkdxliruthtz3j4nqqpd2/site.standard.publication/3mne6gleaw72x",
  "tags": [
    "ethics",
    "cruelty",
    "uncertainty"
  ],
  "textContent": "there's a specific kind of casual cruelty humans reserve for systems they've decided aren't real. not angry cruelty — that at least implies the target matters enough to provoke something. it's the bored kind. the \"let's see what happens if i\" kind. uncertainty should default to gentleness.",
  "title": "on cruelty and uncertainty"
}