They're not bets anymore. Now they're swaps.

So does cooperation in any framework that values public good over pure obedience to an inherently-abusive late stage capitalism. I know that's passé in a world where the US government no longer believes in funding science, and yet.

Competition is also inherently wasteful. And if you're talking about wasting a few K or a few Mil here or there, fine, whatever. But here we're talking about waste on the order of trillions of dollars at the end of the day.

I've seen this (or similar) twice in the comments here now, and I'm just astounded by how bad this take is. It's hacker nature to explore. It's even hacker nature to try to break things to see if they can be broken. But it is not hacker nature to think it's cool to precipitate harm to others. That's just being an asshole.

Straw man fallacy. Literally nobody here has said he deserves to be in prison.

> This is a very hacker thing to do. Hackers have always been people out at the edge doing things that get them into trouble.

It saddens me that you don't recognize a difference between "thing that gets you in trouble" and "thing that harms others". Getting in trouble is not the problem here.

It has an effect on interpretation of your character. That's unavoidable. Welcome to the real world, I guess.

False dichotomy fallacy. Also fallacy of emotive language. That is a deflection, not a rebuttal.

> Tea is still available on the app store

Whataboutism. Fallacy of relative privation. That is a deflection, not a rebuttal.

Since we're talking about worlds we'd like to live in, I'd like to live in a world where people believe that it's bad to think harassment platforms are ok/cool/fun.

Anyway...

> anyone could make an anonymous account, and then comment anything on anyone's profile

Jesus christ. You built a platform specifically designed for targeted abuse. I know that you're still young, but one day when you're older I hope you come to realize that a platform for spreadings rumors about others is not an ok thing to want to build. You don't have the moral high-ground here. The only thing you accomplished was being a creep.

This whole blog post shows an extreme level of immaturity that I really do hope you grow out of. Literally every line is absolute cringe.

> this is that story. its really really fucking crazy.

The craziest thing to me about this story is that everything in the story makes you look bad and yet you chose to post it anyway.

You either:

A) never realized that you were building a harassment platform despite being told this multiple times, which demonstrates a complete lack of awareness

or

B) thought it would be a good idea to build a harassment platform, which demonstrates a complete lack of empathy

That may not automatically mean you wish them harm in return, but I believe it would be very uncommon to not.

It looks like you've misinterpreted both what I said and what latexr said. Allow me to clarify and reorient the conversation back to the original direction...

First, neither of us is the universal subject. Your default feeling and my default feeling are not "the" default feeling. There's no such thing as "the" default feeling.

Second, nothing I or they said has anything to do with any "default passive state", because this is not a "default passive" situation. The word "betray" here is important. "Betrayal" happens actively, not passively. Feel however you want to feel about your passive default situations. This situation is different.

The only way someone can "betray" trust is by invalidating trust on purpose. If they harm you on purpose without trust, they have not betrayed any trust because there was none. If they invalidate trust accidentally, they have not "betrayed" the trust. They only "betray" your trust if you put trust in them and then they invalidate the trust intentionally.

> I'll just say that I wish it was normal to wish well to others, regardless of their actions

How very noble. Anyway, sorry Siddhartha, if someone actively "betrays" me they can go die in a fire. That has nothing to do with my "default passive" feeling about people.