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phfezon Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go

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phfezon Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go

I tried to comment the other day, but apparently I met my quota for replies.... but I wanted to respond to this.

You are making assumptions incorrectly. You are determining right from wrong, good from bad, and everything else for someone that you don't know, and you do not know that person's circle of friends or family, so you can't assume that they care as much as you'd like them to care.

When you create a program, you should be trying to solve a problem.... I'd like to know what problem it is that you are trying to solve?

phfezon Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go

Many people don't understand the terms and conditions of social networks like twitter and facebook, and privacy with those services is ambiguous and difficult to manage.

If a person is feeling suicidal because the people in their life are not noticing their pain, I really doubt that knowing an algorithm had to do it will make them feel any better.

phfezon Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go

If a person is feeling suicidal because the people in their life are not noticing their pain, I really doubt that knowing an algorithm had to do it will make them feel any better.

phfezon Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go

You think it would be wonderful because of the way that you felt, not the way your friend felt.

And there is no algorithm that can detect suicidal feelings. I can't help but think of Alan Turing in this scenario.

phfezon Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go

Exactly, which would make this app unnecessary.

phfezon Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go

Do you think an external program can understand all of the complexities of the human drama within the context of a single person's life?

phfezon Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go

Exactly, which would make this app unnecessary.

phfezon Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go

I can understand why you think this might be a good idea. But it completely doesn't take the depressed person into account at all. It thinks it can solve suicide by checking up on the individual? Do you think the individual wants to be checked up on? Maybe the people checking up on the person are the actual problem in that person's life, which could create an even more serious dilemma for that person.

If there is anything that would drive me to suicide, it would be more people thinking that they can 'solve the problem' in this manner.