Rezzed and Confused – 28 – You don’t have any proof!
November 25, 2009 by Stuart Warf · 2 Comments
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Actual proof of anything is hard to come by. I can’t *show* you atomic particles but I can reasonably deduce they exist based on the behavior I can observe. People can deny the existence of anything if they just demand a high enough burden of proof that can never be met and throw deductive reasoning out the window.
You know that even Lord Gray Goo or whatever his name is himself didn’t deny that there were permabanned griefers on the emerald team. He just stated that “they don’t publish code” as though that’s reassurance enough. Not publishing code is not the same as not writing it, not injecting ideas for others to write into it, and generally not influencing the project with their values (getting away with griefing if at all possible).
I don’t understand why, if they aren’t denying it in any believable way, and sometimes not at all, that other people are bothering to deny it and say there’s no proof.
I just don’t make a habit out of using products created by people who have a history of troublemaking. If you don’t see that as an issue, then you’re welcome to keep using their viewer. You are trusting that they really do have your best interests at heart when they’re telling you that it’s Linden Lab who wants to spy on your conversations.
PS. This is one example of why I don’t use plurk. I never found much on plurk besides drama and people looking to be offended about stuff, to be quite honest about it.