Post #4052477

2026-07-24 03:01 UTC

"But to prove *intent* you'd have to like... collect evidence, such as previous history of actions, what they might have said or written in private. You'd basically have to ask them if they intended to do the bad thing and trust that they'd actually truthfully tell you." Yes, yes indeed.

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@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com 2026-07-24 03:04

I say this as a huge nerd who spent a decade wanting absolutely nothing to do with people and just play with my computer: Computer people need to learn that we're not solving everything from fucking scratch. Read some history books. Ask a fucking humanities person how they'd solve something, they're probably more right than wrong.

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