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"[...] in order to survive, we need to supplicate ourselves to horrible entities whose motivations we are literally not capable of understanding." Feels famili

"[...] in order to survive, we need to supplicate ourselves to horrible entities whose motivations we are literally not capable of understanding." Feels familiar. I am trying to protect my privacy to the best of my knowledge but I feel that I'm losing it to several entities whose identities and ends are rather... cloudy...

thenomad 11y ago
Indeed so. I feel a follow-up piece coming on entitled "Ia, ia, Google fthagn..."
- pavel_lishin 11y ago
  Networknomicon, the Facebook of the Dead, written by the Mad Student Mark Zuckerberg...
  - thenomad 11y ago
    Actually, the Facebook of the Dead is an interesting concept...
    - stared 11y ago
      People have their profiles, and then they die. It's inevitable.
      - pavel_lishin 11y ago
        > then they die. It's inevitable. Pessimist!
    - pavel_lishin 11y ago
      https://what-if.xkcd.com/69/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/69/
    - 7952 11y ago
      They should put in the terms of service that everything becomes public 100 years after death. It would be an amazing social history.
- ffn 11y ago
  At The Mountain View of Madness Cool Airbnb The Tweet of Cthulhu
- sp332 11y ago
  In Firefox, type "about:Mozilla" into the address bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla
nkassis 11y ago
I may be naive but I don't think there ends are that cloudy Their inability to understand that while they may have noble ends but that they won't be in control forever, they aren't capable of protecting this knowledge from nefarious entities even if they did everything they could and they they don't comprehend all the the side effects of their quest for knowledge including opening up holes that can let other nefarious entities gain access too. I don't think it's stupidity that cause them to not understand but more cognitive dissonance led by their absolute belief that what they are doing is for the good of all.
- smacktoward 11y ago
  > I don't think it's stupidity that cause them to not understand but more cognitive dissonance led by their absolute belief that what they are doing is for the good of all. Or just greed. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair

thenomad 11y ago

Indeed so. I feel a follow-up piece coming on entitled "Ia, ia, Google fthagn..."

pavel_lishin 11y ago
Networknomicon, the Facebook of the Dead, written by the Mad Student Mark Zuckerberg...
- thenomad 11y ago
  Actually, the Facebook of the Dead is an interesting concept...
  - stared 11y ago
    People have their profiles, and then they die. It's inevitable.
    - pavel_lishin 11y ago
      > then they die. It's inevitable. Pessimist!
  - pavel_lishin 11y ago
    https://what-if.xkcd.com/69/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/69/
  - 7952 11y ago
    They should put in the terms of service that everything becomes public 100 years after death. It would be an amazing social history.
ffn 11y ago
At The Mountain View of Madness Cool Airbnb The Tweet of Cthulhu
sp332 11y ago
In Firefox, type "about:Mozilla" into the address bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla

nkassis 11y ago

I may be naive but I don't think there ends are that cloudy Their inability to understand that while they may have noble ends but that they won't be in control forever, they aren't capable of protecting this knowledge from nefarious entities even if they did everything they could and they they don't comprehend all the the side effects of their quest for knowledge including opening up holes that can let other nefarious entities gain access too. I don't think it's stupidity that cause them to not understand but more cognitive dissonance led by their absolute belief that what they are doing is for the good of all.

smacktoward 11y ago
> I don't think it's stupidity that cause them to not understand but more cognitive dissonance led by their absolute belief that what they are doing is for the good of all. Or just greed. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair