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Stories like this are a window into an ugly facet of our culture: eagerness to see others punished. I'm not sure if it's Schadenfreude, exactly, but it's damn c
by zedpm 12y ago
Stories like this are a window into an ugly facet of our culture: eagerness to see others punished. I'm not sure if it's Schadenfreude, exactly, but it's damn close. Sadly, between hideous talking heads like Nancy Grace, and the faceless multitudes on social media, there is a lot of encouragement to wildly overreact to any perceived wrong-doing, to assume guilt based on the briefest account of some incident, and to seek as much damage to the target as possible.
Next time you see the crowd forming up, pitchforks in hand, try to be the person who counsels restraint and understanding. Some day it might be you they're after.
- kordless 12y agoI'm leaning toward the guys with the Twitter bot being malignant narcissists, so I agree with you. At a minimum, they are gas lighting the victim. I hate to have to watch the video, but I am.
- kordless 12y agoI watched it and it's painful. I got up to this part where the bearded dude says this: > we're not doing it, its doing it. Actually they, the spambot owners, are doing it and saying they aren't doing it is a 100% lie and is very untrustworthy. While there is a slim chance they have no control over the bot, we can expect technology to quickly give them an 'out' on that particular accusation. Autonomous corporations will be capable of building their existences based on a simple set of rules put into place by us humans, and running autonomously. They will literally be uncontrollable from the standpoint of the creator. Excusing yourself from blame based on a presumed disconnect of intent has to be a type of cognitive bias as the argument "I'm not doing it, it's doing it!" is a fallacy.
- kjs3 12y agoIt's the classic Goebbels Defense: "I just wrote some speeches. I didn't kill any Jews.".
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