“I will slaughter you” – daniel.haxx.se • Hacker News Board

My guess is that people don't want to upvote a post with quite so... inflammatory a title without looking at it first, but are getting blocked out by the hug.

Re: “I will slaughter you” – daniel.haxx.se

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Post by Huwyt_Nashi021 » Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 5:22 AM UTC

How ridiculous that this man suggests pursuing legal action.

It's an expression of frustration. No reasonable person would interpret that as a genuine threat of violence.

If this is enough to get to the poor sheltered 'victim', I hope he never plays a multiplayer video game, expresses an unpopular political opinion on social media, or nicks someone's car in the parking lot. It's part of life.

Re: “I will slaughter you” – daniel.haxx.se

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Post by aaron695 » Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 5:26 AM UTC

It's like the good old days when we dressed up people with Down syndrome in court jester costumes and made them dance.

The person is mentality ill. Their sentences break with grammar. The have no literal meaning. Commenting on anything they say ("He’s already stated that he’s lost $15M of business") is meaningless.

Perhaps how to respond might be worth talking about. I think it's simple. Do not. Don't blog. Don't email. If you have to, talk to the police.

It's possible they are a GPT. I think if the AI ethics people weren't the awful people they are, this is something they would have discussed by now. The two will overlap and it will become an actual ethics issue, especially when GPT tries to act like they are mentally ill.

FYI The original blog post has updated with more emails (4 now), I think any damage is done, it might be interesting to see how a misfiring brain works, but they are a person - https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/