Lucius Finkter

They are exploiting a vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to privileged information. Sounds hackery to me. It’s not their fault that Zuck made it easy.

If you’ve never thought about shooting someone, then on what basis can you even say that shooting someone is wrong?

Am I supposed to know how much a box of tomatoes normally costs? How big of a box? Why not give the price increase as a percentage?

I hate headlines.

Ok, now do sponges. Is it obvious sponges feel pain? How can you tell it’s obvious?

Why would you assume another organism can feel pain without any proof? Rationalism requires skepticism.

I think omission can be used for misleading/deception, but that it’s distinct from a lie.

Why were they storing passwords in plaintext in the databases?!

The most rigorous evidence comes from a 2018 whole-population study tracking nearly half a million children born in Western Australia between 1980 and 2001. Of those, 1,870 developed schizophrenia, but not one of the 66 children with cortical blindness did.

1,870 / 500,000 = 0.374% of people in the general population

0.374% * 66 = 0.25

Not particularly rigorous.

There are ways to be compelling other than annoyance.

Avellone bragging that his game’s code has security-through-spaghetti.

A lot of people here are happy to see others lose a freedom that they themselves were never going to exercise.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

We need AI or else we’ll have nothing to protect us from… AI.