Scientific Progress

[Kevin Gallagher]

Hello all, "scientist" (PhD candidate) here in the field of computer
science and cyber security.

Most of the scientists I have encountered are not totally malicious, just
oblivious to the moral, ethical and political consequences of their work.
They are blind enough to believe that their "advances" help society,
despite them actually shifting the balance of power away from the people.

There are a few, however, who do what they can to shift power back into the
hands of the people. I was greatly influenced by a paper by Phil Rogaway
entitled "On the moral character of cryptographic work," and I try my best
to do research that works for the benefit of the people, not governments or
wealthy power holders. Only time will tell if I am successful, but I will
do my best.

There are others who also work with morals in mind. It is not so black and
white as "scientists are evil people working for fascists." They are just
unaware of the consequences of their work.

On Oct 24, 2016 3:06 PM, "juan" <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:58:24 +0200
> Tom <tom at vondein.org> wrote:
>
> > But if all politicians, all employers, all teachers, all scientists
> > and so on are fascists, parasites,
>
>         It's obvious that all 'scieniists' working for the state are
>         parasites working for fascist states. Perhaps you need to
>         research the nature of the political system you live in a bit
>         more?
>
>
>
> > or idiots, who are the sane people
> > left?
> >
> > Only you, the russians and the Juan's out there?
> >
> > C'mon, nobody can be that stupid to really think that EVERY scientist
> > is part of a global multi cultural, multi societal, multi language
> > conspiracy!
>
>
>         I thought it was clear that any dissenter gets silenced or
>         ignored. So you could have saved yourself the misrepresentatin.
>         It's not 'every' one, just the majority.
>
>
>         On the other hand, I'm familiar with 'libertarian'
>         anti-conspiracy bullshit, so you could save it too for...other
>         audiences.
>
> >
> > What next? Reptiles governing us? Earth is flat?  Bielefeld doesn't
> > exist?
> >
> > Fuckers. Indeed.
>
>
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