Not to fail in an ad hominem but I kinda give low value to the thinking of the Unabomber
He was the victim of 200 hours of brutal psychological experimentation by Henry Murray. It turns out you can torture people past their breaking point and they may not recover.
It also turns out that doing this to people with greater-than-average intelligence can have proportionally greater-than-average consequences.
This is a conspiracy theory and a myth.
The (often claimed) part of the story that's conspiracy theory is that the experiments are tied to MKULTRA, which I didn't claim at all, because there's no evidence of that.
If anything's a conspiracy theory, it's that the entirety of your comment history on Hacker News, spanning 2 years is to post solely on the topic of the Unabomber, and that you do the same thing on Reddit.
I wonder if Dang considers it astroturfing if an intelligence agency does it? (edit: joke, but it is weird that your comment history is nothing but about Ted).
And for those of you who are wondering if the psych. experiments are real or not: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard...
I'm genuinely worried here.
Why does everyone here seem so timid and silly? Is it really necessary to get your panties in a bundle about someone interested in this controversy? Do you find it....disturbing? lol.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/09/letters...
Why would an intelligence agency do what I'm doing? What would they have to gain by posting this?? I'm trying to understand the humor, please help me.
Other participants in the study and other researchers involved have come out and stated that it was benign.
No other students involved reported any lasting issues.
We have on record the actual transcripts of Kaczynski's participation and it conclusively shows that it was benign--in fact it shows a calm and relaxed Kaczynski make the interviewer appear silly.
It's easy to see why people cling to the idea that Kaczynski must somehow have been affected by this study: it distracts their own and others attention away from his ideas and on to his personality. The reasons for his violence are entirely consistent with his ideology. There have been terrorists and revolutionaries throughout history who have committed far worse "crimes" and yet we don't need to pathologize them or their motivations.
How is that a "conspiracy theory"???
This quote is especially on topic. Speaking of which, what do you think of that new Michael Moore doc "Planet of the Humans"?
You mean TO fail in an ad hominem.