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"... Cool story, would have been more interesting if he had refused to continue even without figuring out the ruse ..." How? Is it "cool" because you figured

"... Cool story, would have been more interesting if he had refused to continue even without figuring out the ruse ..." How? Is it "cool" because you figured out the original poster is smart enough to realise the "Milgram experiment" is a higher order of intelligence test that divides those who will really question assumptions and acts on them? (a desirable hacker quality) Or "coool" because you just realised it's the same psychology used by every Tin-pot dictator, boss, person in charge to make others do their bidding?

tptacek 19y ago
That was shrill. No, it would be "cool" because the experiment was famously set up to model real instances of authoritarian abuses. There was no ruse for the Nazis to figure out.
- bootload 19y ago
  "... That was shrill ... the experiment was famously set up to model real instances of authoritarian abuses .." Yes but for a reason. One of the (nasty) findings of the Milgram experiment was that you don't have to be a "Nazis" in order to obey orders. For me there is nothing "cool" about blind obedience to Authority ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Results