News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by roenxi on Monday December 09, 2024 @07:34PM (#42372284)
Probably fairly peaceful, intelligence or weirdness aren't at play here. The dangerous ones are those who deal in the practical realities of the world in ways that can effect change - they are more likely to have the means to do something. Engineers and chemists are ones to watch (whoever did the script for Breaking Bad knew his chemist stereotypes).
Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by s1artibartfast on Monday December 09, 2024 @08:14PM (#42372576)
In my mind, the common threads with organize terrorism is utilitarianism and consequentialism. This way of thinking has a big overlap with stem fields based in logic and physics.

The perhaps concerning thread socially is the rise of utilitarian and consequentialist morality.

Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by tbrownaw on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @12:02AM (#42373928)
Hm... Widespread adoption of utilitarianism is a net negative for society°, therefore utilitarianism says that promoting utilitarianism is bad?

°I guess because it's too easy to make calculation errors that lead to major badness?