• @douglasg14b
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    1011 hours ago

    End users really need to just be more skeptical.

    That’s… The opposite of a solution.

    This is how you make systemic problems worse, not better.

    Humans are largely morons, you can’t fix this. But you can fix the systems they interact with to avoid their vulnerabilities from being taken advantage of.

    • Hello Hotel
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      Theres two ways of looking at safe systems,

      • People are idiots and will get themselves hurt. The machine should prevent them to keep them safe at all costs.

      Or

      • without guardrails, people are vulnerable idiots and I am too. Let the machine prevent me until I understand the risk.

      As memtioned elsewhere in the thread, political pressure prevents implementation of safe systems. I absolutely love safeguards and being safe because foot guns are nasty. (Its why Rust is a great language.) but I will fight against things clearly created under the former philosophy because it locks people out of their own property. Because sometimes the “safety” is an excuse for controlling behavor.

        • Hello Hotel
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          12 hours ago

          It’s a programing term that comes from the phrase “shooting yourself in the foot”. Come to think about it, a loaded gun is a great example of safety mechinisms.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      But how much do I trust the central authority that would be in charge of implementing that?

      Personally, we, individual people, should just be calling out others spreading BS. There’s been more then a few times someone has brought me something fishy sounding, I’ve responded with “and did you hear about that on facebook?”

      • @[email protected]
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        11 hour ago

        Trust it as much as it shows itself to have your interests in mind, or how well you judge it to be working towards the intended purpose.

        • @Duamerthrax
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          130 minutes ago

          I don’t necessarily trust info that claims to have my interest in mind because that how con artists approach their marks. They find a common problem, then confidently proclaim that have the perfect solution.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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        It takes too much time and resources. A lie runs halfway around the world before the truth laces up it’s shoes.

        Manipulators and liars need to be stopped by a higher authority. I’m fine with that authority being civil liability, the criminal justice system obviously sucks at it. Let’s get serious and stop letting this stochastic terrorism go unpunished.

        Lose your dad to Fox News conspiracies? Should be able to sue Fox News for child support. Lose your husband to a mass shooting caused by some deranged Trumper that thinks Paul Pelosi is coming to take our guns? Should be able to sue trump personally for wrongful death. It’s not like Fox and Trump don’t know what the consequences are.

        Let juries be the arbiters.

        This problem isn’t going to be solved without financial liability or violence.

      • @douglasg14b
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        Well yeah that’s a problem of course but that doesn’t negate the reasoning I stated in other areas of this thread.

        I’m not promoting trust in a central authority or government here that’s a separate problem that exists on an entirely different plane.

        Yes you who probably has some amount of critical thinking skills can do that. The majority of young generational individuals today, cannot. Which largely negates the “well they should get gud” argument. It’s a systematic problem, you can’t solve systematic problems that way…

        I’m not going to repeat myself though, my last paragraph in the previous message is a fairly succinct tldr. This is a principal that’s been applied and works across industries, and is critically important for building “safe systems”

        Safe systems being systems that are designed to be operated and interacted with safely. There is a practical infinite number of safe systems that you can find examples of to further drive my point home. We can design systems that provide safety from human behavior and failings, the largest obstacle is usually both the political aspect and the aspect of individuals who refuse to acknowledge that safe systems are important.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 hours ago

          Lol if you think it’s the young people who can’t do critical thinking, I’d like you to take a look at the Trump voter base.