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1448 sats \ 8 replies \ @lechiffre 20 Jan \ on: Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list tech
The entire letter:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b98b29cf-27d9-49e0-b10b-1848399badfd@kittens.ph/T/#u
Kind of surreal
Wow thanks for sharing this. That's a fascinating read. The depth of regret and emotion, the self-reflection, all the little wisdoms he peppers in between technical discussion points -- and all of that under the weight of this horrible crime he's committed and in prison for. I've never read anything like it
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If you're looking for something like it and you thinking about the ethics of technology broadly, I highly recommend reading Ted Kazinsky's Manifesto.
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I read that long ago and it made a big impression on me. It was one of the first examples I can remember of me actually having read something that I then saw discussed everywhere, where people were talking about it, and about TK, and I was like how can you be missing all the nuance in this situation? How are you not addressing any of the actual things?
But it prepared me for the world, certainly. All the same issues relevant everywhere, and bitcoin is no different.
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It was assigned in an Ethics in Technology class required for my CS degree. I don't think any of my classmates actually read it, considering how few people discussed it with cryptography prof that taught the course and I, but I found it incredibly lucid and surprising.
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If that essay doesn't shake you up and make you question some deep things about being a person in society, I don't know what would. You don't have to agree with it, but to not take it seriously is fucking bonkers.
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Hans Reiser is legend, I used to use ReiserFS as a default filesystem on all my Linux machines back in a day.
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