gotta love a good cargo cult i refuse to call myself one in interviews until i've made something that could kill people if it breaks
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Replying to @djmicrobeads @chaosprime
most software isn't a life-or-death thing though. the bridge engineering analogy shouldn't be taken too literally.
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
yeah uhhh the fact that i make hyperbolic statements like that is a pretty obvious sign of my immaturity
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Don't worry, the fact that the system we live in is massively interdependent all but guarantees you will write something that kills people if it breaks eventually.
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probably the sensible response is write guidance software for smart bombs so that your software kills people even when it's working perfectly
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I knew a guy who was involved in the JDAM program actually. As you might have expected, he utterly despised all human life, especially his own.
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the things people do for money lol
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to be fair, it was an unimpressive amount of money and he was really in it for the hate.
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i think i misread. thought working on the project warped his mind, not that he was already misanthropic. daaaamn
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I know right? after knowing that guy I completely abandoned the hypothesis that money is what corrupts people.
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I mean, maybe really a whole lot of money, for the right kind of person. Clearly there's other stuff that matters a lot though. In his particular case it was because of spending his formative years fighting wars in Israel.
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that would be enough to make you hate humanity
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