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People used to look at me weird when I explained how I was paranoid that someone was routing all of my conversations between multiple people, in an effort to cluster intelligence and intellectual contributions without any participant knowing what they were contributing to.

Take that, therapy. Yes, the paranoia was somewhat imaginative, but it was an exaggeration of something that actually can be mechanized. The people I explained this to didn't believe me that you could create chat streams this way.




I think everyone has those thoughts to a certain degree: however I'm not dismissing yours as common or trying to minimize them in any way.

You might enjoy this stack-exchange article on Robert A. Heinlien's "They" - http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49224/short-story-w...


I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but I sure hope that you got to deal with that fear with a professional. That would be a difficult way to live...

Sorry that you had to go through that!


That is an interesting fear


Interesting. I've always been interested in building such a system.


Unfortunately, it was already built. And what came out of it was Anonymous.

Ever hear of 4Chan?




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