Definition: a hacker is somebody who is not afraid of making a potentially irreversible change to a system s/he does not fully understand.
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Ah yes, but they are not afraid to hack on ones they don't.
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and also, tech interconnectedness ==> every tech is all tech in a way.
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yes, but unafraid of *what*? failure, breaking things, proving own incompetence, right? == incomplete understanding/irreversibility
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you're mistaking sufficiency in definition for necessity... willingness to be wrong != requirement to be wrong.
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And not sure how you snuck in the word "wrong" into my definition. Incomplete understanding != possibility of being wrong.
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"incomplete understanding" applies to ENTIRE system that could possibly be impacted. Not just arbitrary delineation of "my piece."
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You're claiming omniscience for hackers, and *I'm* reaching? Heh!
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and I am saying that's okay in my definition so long as they don't insist on only working on things where they have omniscience.
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it's incapacity for accepting unknowns (less than omniscience) in situations that makes someone a non-hacker per my definition.
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new definition: VC: someone who won't take yes for an answer.
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