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People used to look at me weird when I explained how I was paranoid that someone was routing all of my conversations between multiple people, in an effort to cl
by drcomputer 12y ago
People used to look at me weird when I explained how I was paranoid that someone was routing all of my conversations between multiple people, in an effort to cluster intelligence and intellectual contributions without any participant knowing what they were contributing to.
Take that, therapy. Yes, the paranoia was somewhat imaginative, but it was an exaggeration of something that actually can be mechanized. The people I explained this to didn't believe me that you could create chat streams this way.
- MasterScrat 12y agoInteresting. I've always been interested in building such a system.
- kefka 12y agoUnfortunately, it was already built. And what came out of it was Anonymous. Ever hear of 4Chan?
- ionwake 12y agoThat is an interesting fear
- hluska 12y agoI hope this doesn't come across as rude, but I sure hope that you got to deal with that fear with a professional. That would be a difficult way to live... Sorry that you had to go through that!
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- technofiend 12y agoI think everyone has those thoughts to a certain degree: however I'm not dismissing yours as common or trying to minimize them in any way. You might enjoy this stack-exchange article on Robert A. Heinlien's "They" - http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49224/short-story-where-rain-only-on-one-side-of-the-house-gives-away-fake-world http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49224/short-story-w...