Reading these comments initially got me sad. How many echoes of the article’s theme - ‘look at this flaw and how I exploited it’. At first I thought the author

Reading these comments initially got me sad. How many echoes of the article’s theme - ‘look at this flaw and how I exploited it’. At first I thought the author had cast a magical spell to bring out the dark side in us. But really, The initiative in us that is adversarial already exists and is simply suppressed. We go about all day acting ‘civilized’ while the animal in us paces nervously waiting for an opportunity to get out. And in the anonymity of the net, we let the animal out. How many of us would brag about these accomplishments to our children or to our boss at work? But then I realized how honest every post was. How anonymity also encouraged ‘free’ speech. And remarkably how much data was shared. Before the net, when we couldn’t be anonymous, we couched our meanings in bs and obfuscation. The ‘bs’ meter was a finely tuned process that you had to develop and run in the background to sort the chaff from a person’s words. Now, comments are often accompanied by a github link where I can read and test the code that people brag about. Thank you internet