SuperNovaStar

"Cancer risk" can be a lot of things. It's not like cancer is just one disease - it's a whole family of diseases. The mechanisms by which something increases cancer risk are many and frequently poorly understood.

Fortunately, the mechanism of action of ionizing radiation and the cancer risks associated with it are well understood, and so we know that bananas are not dangerous.*

(* well, they're not dangerous because they are radioactive. It could turn out that they're dangerous for some other reason.)

Oh, look, another one for the block list (as in I'm blocking Redkid)

That one also reads like satire.

But of course, nuance and irony are dead on the internet, because even if this guy is satire there is bound to be at least one person who genuinely believes this crap...

This has got to be satire.

...right?

Oh, definitely. I don't thing a good dictator can exist - even if you put the most moral, ethical, upstanding person you can imagine in charge - but I was accepting that premise for the sake of argument to show the other problems with that model (i.e. that a single point of failure is bad).

Having one person make all the decisions unilaterally just amplifies their flaws and tends to place them in an echo chamber where they are insulated from reality, common sense, and the consequences of their actions by a group of mewling, scheming sycophants.

Definitely! It's a bad system all around.

I don't think a benevolent dictator would do the world good.

No one should have that much power. If nothing else, because it tends to drive said person mad. Just look at how paranoid Stalin was.

Also, the entire idea of a dictator involves rule by force. That's exactly the kind of thing we would prefer to get away from. All laws involve force, yes, but the more we can move away from violence and towards peaceful cooperation the better off humanity will be.

They also get thoughts and prayers. It's a real upgrade!

Oh a benevolent dictator? Well, that's just great! Benevolent dictators get the guillotines with a cushion on them.

look for a way to make the system tolerate human error

Ah, if only managers understood this principle.

My motto is that "all failures are management failures." But I'm not far enough up the chain to really implement that 😅

I use adblockers... but I also donate montly. Wikipedia is good for humanity, and it needs to stay free from corporate money as long as possible.

There is also a weird 3d pretzel pyramid type thing it could be. The two points in the middle would be pointed upward out of the plane, with the outer hexagon being the base of the "pyramid."