Giving a troll any sort of encouragement makes me a bit nervous but I agree.
Something akin to movies - why write good dialogue when it it so much easier to blow something up?
...the general concept you're talking about has been discussed much in serious probability theory. See Pascal's Wager.
Pascal's Wager doesn't quite fit with what I feel when I read such things. More along the line of unintended consequences. The consequences may be a possibility but will not stop someone from pushing the button no matter how grave they may be.
If my bookie is coming tomorrow to collect a bundle or kill me and I only have 1/2 a bundle then Pascal would tell me to make a 2 to 1 bet with what I have tonight.
I wonder if they are taking any bets on the probability of an "oops" incident.
Source: July 16, 1945: Trinity Blast Opens Atomic Age @ Wired
"The Trinity test, as it was known, was the culmination of the American effort to win the race against Germany (and, ultimately, the Soviet Union) in building an atomic bomb. A mere three weeks after the test, the United States used atomic bombs to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But prior to the 16th, none of those involved in the project knew if they had built a devastating new weapon or a spectacular dud.
With gallows humor, the Los Alamos physicists got up a betting pool on the possible yield of the bomb. Estimates ranged from zero to as high as 45,000 tons of TNT. Enrico Fermi, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938 for his work on nuclear fission, offered side odds on the bomb destroying all life on the planet."
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Steve Jobs
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Giving a troll any sort of encouragement makes me a bit nervous but I agree. Something akin to movies - why write good dialogue when it it so much easier to blow something up?
...the general concept you're talking about has been discussed much in serious probability theory. See Pascal's Wager.
Pascal's Wager doesn't quite fit with what I feel when I read such things. More along the line of unintended consequences. The consequences may be a possibility but will not stop someone from pushing the button no matter how grave they may be. If my bookie is coming tomorrow to collect a bundle or kill me and I only have 1/2 a bundle then Pascal would tell me to make a 2 to 1 bet with what I have tonight.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Steve_Jobs
Now they need to figure out how to get Win or dows in the name.
1) Change name to Facedows or WinBook.
2) Get sued.
3) Profit!