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“It may well be a law of nature that a civilization that discovers tools that are too powerful for its own good will simply kill itself,” Chaloupka said. “It may well be, but we don’t know and therefore the proposition is that since, in this spark that belongs to us right now, we have produced so many beautiful things — Mozart and Bach and Aristotle and Einstein — it would be a crime if we foolishly extinguished our spark too soon.”