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theodoraward@wandering.shop ("Theodora Ward") wrote:
if i rig up a random number generator to a bomb, program it to generate a number between 1 and 20 every five minutes, set the bomb to go off if i roll a 20, begin the random number generator, then leave the room, i am liable for when the bomb goes off. the fact that a deeply stupid pseudo-metaphysics of software having agency is being used to obscure a very basic causal chain here to the point that companies are just confessing to violating federal law is making me insane