Chuan lists three ancient horrors that the Synesis prevents:
famine;
servitude;
unfree speech.
Observations
We human beings now have the need and the ability and lack only the collective will to eliminate these and other such horrors.
If another, more powerful, agency protects us from famine etc, then we will have lost our human agency.
It will transpire later in this novel that the artificial intelligence which Chuan serves plans a massive deception of humanity, an immense and unforgivable contravention of "free speech." (How can we "speak" freely if we can think only within the elaborate falsehoods of a deliberately implanted and sustained misconception?) This alone invalidates Chuan's side of the disagreement between him and Fenn. But it also makes the cybercosm incredible. We should expect truth, not lies, from a pure intellect.
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