The 4chan toaster meme remains undefeated.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1695828-that-is-my-fetish

Generalised: principle-agent problem: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...>.

Particularly where the agent has specialised knowledge and/or privileged access.

Not uncommonly an issue in IT.

A growing concern with AI, to boot: Alignment.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alignment_Problem>

Wow, well, that's one of the more f'd up things I've ever read about. Not sure what else there is to say.

Welp, that's enough internet for me today!

Warning for the squeamish: I only made it partway through the article before deciding it would probably make me nauseous if I continued.

I don't know why the framing. This is easy: review the cases. If it has his hand it's tainted one way or the other. That's it.

There is probably some correlation between one's profession and fetishes. We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes so why would that be different elsewhere?

See also, I suppose, our discussion yesterday in Firefighter arson a long-standing issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130853

Where is the line between fetish and mental illness??? Why is it that if someone wants to cut off their own healthy limbs, we are calling this a fetish rather than saying what it is, a mental illness. No rationale human being would want this done. And before people state that there are many fetishes and that people have the right to have them, if any of you had a friend that wanted this done, you would take them to a professional to get them help, you wouldn't be encouraging them to cut off their legs.

Why do I care if someone wants to amputate their own legs? The only issue here is the insurance fraud, if that happened.