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drnick1 a day ago

> normal people can't be trusted with system-level access but some people can.

Why can "normal people" be trusted with a car then? Or firearms? Or kitchen knives?

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LoganDark a day ago | parent | next [-]

False premise...

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sneak a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, normal people generally can’t be trusted with cars: in one country of only 3.5% of the humans we kill two jumbo jets worth of people with them every day.

Tylenol is another example. Building materials is a third (building and fire codes are a relatively recent invention). Hell, even penicillin is by prescription only.

Letting the circumstance happen where median people can easily cause externalities through ignorance or carelessness is how we incinerated the planet and destroyed the biosphere as we know it with fossil fuel emissions, because it’s nbd (still even now in 2026, when we know about runaway polar greenhouse curves) to get in your ICE car and drive to the corner store.

When normal people had GP computers, we got botnets millions strong and DDoS in the Tbit/sec range and keyloggers on every hotel lobby computer hooked up to the boarding pass printer. Median people are way safer on the internet now than before.

	▲	tzs a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Well, normal people generally can’t be trusted with cars: in one country of only 3.5% of the humans we kill two jumbo jets worth of people with them every day. If you mean Indonesia (the county closest to 3.5% of the human population) or the US (the nearest above 3.5% at 4.1%+) then you are high by an order of magnitude. Two jumbo jets are around 1000 people. US car deaths are around 100 a day and Indonesia is a little lower. If you mean Pakistan (the next country after Indonesia at 2.9%) you are high by close to two orders of magnitude. They have around 15 deaths a day.
	▲	yibg a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That seems like an untenable stance. Most people don't pick healthy foods to eat or exercise as much as they should. Should we dictate what they can and cannot eat etc?