PlaidX comments on Some Thoughts Are Too Dangerous For Brains to Think - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PlaidX 13 July 2010 07:54:39AM 6 points [-]

Certain patterns of input may be dangerous, but knowledge isn't a pattern of input, it can be formatted in a myriad of ways, and it's not generally that hard to find a safe one. There's a picture of a french fry that crashes AOL instant messenger, but that doesn't mean it's the french fry that's the problem. It's just the way it's encoded.