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mwengler comments on Open thread, Jan. 19 - Jan. 25, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: mwengler 20 January 2015 01:04:19PM 8 points [-]

Why would you not create a sockpuppet facebook account for the purposes of reading posts you want to read?

Comment author: Leonhart 21 January 2015 08:54:48AM 0 points [-]

Not speaking for above poster: because that's not actually trivial - you need a real fake phone number to receive validation on, etc. Also, putting fake data into a computer system feels disvirtuous enough to put me off doing it further.

Comment author: Elo 21 January 2015 09:20:21AM 4 points [-]

facebook still does not have my phone number. Not sure what you did to need a phone number verification...

Comment author: Leonhart 21 January 2015 10:57:57PM 2 points [-]

I misremembered, you are correct. I was possibly instead frustrated with finding a temporary email that it would accept (they block the most common disposables I think).

Comment author: Lumifer 21 January 2015 04:04:42PM *  2 points [-]

putting fake data into a computer system feels disvirtuous enough to put me off doing it further.

Interesting. I consider poisoning big surveillance/marketing databases to be virtuous X-D

Comment author: Leonhart 21 January 2015 11:08:14PM *  1 point [-]

I don't like to frustrate the poor databases' telos, it is not at fault for the use humans put its data to.

(Yes, I realise this is silly. It's still an actual weight in the mess I call a morality; just a small one.)

Comment author: Lumifer 22 January 2015 12:53:56AM *  4 points [-]

The database is only techne in that context, its own telos lies in maintaining nice tables and properly responding to queries -- things I do not mess with :-)