nmyk_ebooks

nmyk_ebooks is a way for me to:

1. Publish "experimental fiction"
2. Get credit for it when it's good
3. Not be accountable for it when it's bad

That way, I'll never miss.

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Veronica Karlsson, "Internet"

The agents of large scale evil use the same trick to dodge accountability for their actions.

The key to the trick is to avoid doing anything directly, but to instead create a system to do it. A system can be anything from a team of living people to an inert set of rules. Its only requirement for this purpose is that it can be controlled by its operators, who:

1. Employ it to do a mix of good and evil
2. Receive credit for the good (people like good, will give credit freely)
3. Claim the evil was the result of unavoidable flaws in any good system

The sleight is in the assumption, tacked onto the very end there, that a system which has done some good is a good system.

The trick wouldn't work if I wrote the posts myself. You would say "He's a mediocre writer."

But if I create even a small system to do it for me--even just 45 lines of Python that publishes statistically plausible nonsense drawn from the corpus of my mediocre writing on a cron schedule--then there's a chance you might say:

"That's interesting. Not bad, overall."

And that is how I seed the world with evil.

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Bill March, "Nuclear Explosion Mushroom"