So this was a bit of joke and surprise made them angry about this convergence. Then something even worse happened. People started to talk about using the internet to carry voice conversations for free.

所以这有种开玩笑和惊奇的意味,使他们对聚合很生气，而后更,糟糕的事发生了，人们开始谈论关于,使用互联网免费传输声音会话。

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Despite making a bad joke about it we're going to do the same thing here.

尽管关于流程图我说了个很糟糕的笑话,我们还是要去画流程图。

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That it is intended as a kind of joke to, in many ways, discredit the idea of the just city or at least to indicate its extreme implausibility.

目的是要用作戏谑，在很多方面，使人怀疑正义之城的概念,或至少是要指明其极难令人置信。

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So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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So, although we joke about these kinds of experiments, and they are fun to talk about because they are unusual and cute, there is also some serious implications of this kind of work that one might think about.

尽管我们觉得这些实验十分好笑，说起来也有趣,因为它们不同寻常，而且可爱，但实际上是由深刻含义的,我们可以思考一下这类研究的含义。

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