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It’s been discussed for years by people who didn’t need to see the exploit to know that it had to be there. Sane people have been avoiding timesharing for criti

• carapace 9y ago
  This is a recurring pattern that just blows my mind: typically some small, often academic, group knows about some problem or potential problem that everybody else is ignoring until it becomes un-ignorable. Anthopogenic climate change falls into this category. I have to wonder, first, what sort of obvious stupid self-destructive things am I doing right now but ignoring. And second, how can we build systems that systematically take this into account? Is there some way to short-cut the process and find and fix problems in the early stages? Or better yet, design our systems so that they don't have the problems from the start?
  • Strom 9y ago
    The key thing to take into account here is that for every one of those early warnings that turn out to be true there's also a plethora of speculation that never amounts to anything.
  • mannykannot 9y ago
    It is not really comparable to climate change - people have been assuming that everything is OK, but there is no well-organized campaign to persuade people that these exploits don't exist now there is good evidence that they do. There is one attitude that exacerbates those problems that are real - the tacit assumption that concerns do not count for anything until an exploit has been demonstrated.