**khm** @khm@mastodon.sdf.org · 2020-12-19T06:00:10Z

khm @khm@mastodon.sdf.org

Any technology that requires an exceptional level of training to understand is going to be weaponized against people who are not technologists.

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**omni** @omni@freeradical.zone · Dec 19, 2020, 15:00

**omni** @omni@freeradical.zone · Dec 19, 2020, 15:00

Dec 19, 2020, 15:00

omni @omni@freeradical.zone

@khm
What do we call this law?

**khm** @khm@mastodon.sdf.org · Dec 19, 2020, 20:00

**khm** @khm@mastodon.sdf.org · Dec 19, 2020, 20:00

Dec 19, 2020, 20:00

khm @khm@mastodon.sdf.org

@omni I don't know, I posted it hoping someone would accuse me of plagiarism and then tell me the actual author. I can't imagine it's an original thought

**omni** @omni@freeradical.zone · Dec 20, 2020, 16:50

**omni** @omni@freeradical.zone · Dec 20, 2020, 16:50

Dec 20, 2020, 16:50

omni @omni@freeradical.zone

@khm
Me neither

**Wannabe Astronaut** @space_cadet@aus.social · Dec 19, 2020, 22:45

**Wannabe Astronaut** @space_cadet@aus.social · Dec 19, 2020, 22:45

Dec 19, 2020, 22:45

Wannabe Astronaut @space_cadet@aus.social

@khm

That's like the 2020 version of Arthur C Clarke's "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

**Andrew Miloradovsky** @amiloradovsky@functional.cafe · Dec 19, 2020, 22:53

**Andrew Miloradovsky** @amiloradovsky@functional.cafe · Dec 19, 2020, 22:53

Dec 19, 2020, 22:53

Andrew Miloradovsky @amiloradovsky@functional.cafe

@khm I doubt it.

**νδπ** @ndpi@merveilles.town · Dec 20, 2020, 07:49

**νδπ** @ndpi@merveilles.town · Dec 20, 2020, 07:49

Dec 20, 2020, 07:49

νδπ @ndpi@merveilles.town

@khm @neauoire when you say “understand”, what do you mean? Do you mean “use”, or do you mean to deeply understand? Because pretty much any technology has long since passed the point that a non-specialist can understand it.