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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 :-)

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