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if the IA ever dies for good, there's gonna be a temptation to blame them for making mistakes that caused it (not having better infosec, taking off lending restrictions to try to help at the beginning of a global pandemic that shut down the world), but if they go down, they were taken down by deliberate actions by people (book publishers, hackers) not by forces of nature*

could they have played defense better? yes, could they have been better prepared about how publishers would react during the pandemic, probably, but they were still deliberately targeted and we shouldn't misplace our anger

*(although there is a tendency to treat malicious hackers and corporations as forces of nature who have no choice but to do what they do, this is not true, these are human beings who make decisions)