So Big Brother has a bot create a post like this to make people think that other people want less privacy? Why wouldn't a bot just post something pre-written by an actual human instead of some weird collage of robotic-sounding sentiments like, "I look forward to bringing solutions to the US government"? That is not something a human would actually say. It it supposed to look like it was translated from another language? Is it just to waste our time trying to decipher it?
Out of curiosity what do you mean specifically by this statement ?
I wonder if they could have been more tautological
AI already makes mistakes, detecting wrong people:
Yes and it was still quite likely the correct choice/approach (how he went about it) in terms of the overall benefit to privacy globally (which seems to have been his aim).
Snowden could have attempted a few other legal approaches to being a whistleblower. The risk would have been far higher they would have buried him and the information in one form or another; they certainly would have tried. And even if he had succeeded through that channel, less information would have gotten out about what they were doing.
Doing something wrong doesn't always lead to a bad outcome or vice versa, there is no inherently fixed link there. Doing something right doesn't always lead to a good/positive outcome for example, that's one example I think more people can very easily relate to; and for the same reason that's true, the exact opposite is true.