I think you have to be paranoid, really paranoid, to be able to think about this kind of thing. "Normal" humans seem to have psychological stability mechanisms that operate pathologically when confronted with events that are too far outside of their world-view. It's fine to disbelieve Bigfoot. It's dangerous to disbelieve e.g. Stuxnet.
Even the author:
> It wasn't until I'd read through the code [of Stuxnet] myself that I finally believed that it had actually happened.
Is it a failure of imagination? Head-in-the-sand-ism? Just not paranoid enough?
To everyone reading this, if this article sounds like a crank, please re-evaluate your world-view. This is the clearest and most well-written description of the problem I've yet read.
Dude thank you. You're a freakin' hero. You've identified what I call the "Maximum Overdrive" problem and actually gotten people to take it seriously. That is amazing and I applaud your efforts. Thank you.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. It seems entirely reasonable to assume that people just can't bring themselves to think about some things logically.
I think you have to be paranoid, really paranoid, to be able to think about this kind of thing. "Normal" humans seem to have psychological stability mechanisms that operate pathologically when confronted with events that are too far outside of their world-view. It's fine to disbelieve Bigfoot. It's dangerous to disbelieve e.g. Stuxnet.
Even the author:
> It wasn't until I'd read through the code [of Stuxnet] myself that I finally believed that it had actually happened.
Is it a failure of imagination? Head-in-the-sand-ism? Just not paranoid enough?
To everyone reading this, if this article sounds like a crank, please re-evaluate your world-view. This is the clearest and most well-written description of the problem I've yet read.