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On November 21, the Cardano blockchain suffered a major chainsplit after someone created a transaction that exploited an old bug in Cardano node software, causing the chain to split. The person who submitted the transaction fessed up on Twitter, writing, "It started off as a 'let's see if I can reproduce the bad transaction' personal challenge and then I was dumb enough to rely on AI's instructions on how to block all traffic in/out of my Linux server without properly testing it on testnet first, and then watched in horror as the last block time on explorers froze."Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, responded with a tweet boasting about how quickly the chain recovered from the catastrophic split, then accused the person of acting maliciously. "It was absolutely personal", Hoskinson wrote, adding that the person's public version of events was merely him "trying to walk it back because he knows the FBI is already involved". Hoskinson added, "There was a premeditated attack from a disgruntled [single pool operator] who spent months in the Fake Fred discord actively looking at ways to harm the brand and reputation of IOG. He targeted my personal pool and it resulted in disruption of the entire cardano network."Hoskinson's decision to involve the FBI horrified some onlookers, including one other engineer at the company who publicly quit after the incident. They wrote, "I've fucked up pen testing in a major way once. I've seen my colleagues do the same. I didn't realize there was a risk of getting raided by the authorities because of that + saying mean things on the Internet."
“I know! I’ll use one bogus technology to test another bogus technology! What could possibly go wrong?”
Yeah, no, being mentally ill doesn’t make you a piece of shit, and that’s essentially implying that they are not at fault for trying to avoid any and all personal accountability. They’re just greedy, evil jerks.
Some forms of mental illness, however, are, quite literally, “just an asshole”.
Pathological narcissism would qualify for this, for example.
That genuinely depends, actually.
Narcissists are usually groomed all life and told they’re special and extremely important and too valuable, so what can happen is that those people will feel like they NEED special attention OR to be the best, otherwise they’re irredeemable failures, and they usually have very little (or a very fragile) self-esteem, AND they have insane amounts of self-doubt, self-criticism, or uh, just feel empty. That is what the majority of people with NPD experience. The “assholes” you see with NPD are the ones who actually managed to use their narcissism to get power over others, whether it be by having a child (and thus having power over them), becoming a boss, a successful capitalist, a teacher, or any of those other career paths that require you to have power over someone, AND were never told “no” at any point.
Also, there is no such thing as “narcissistic abuse”. A disorder cannot be abusive by definition. People can be evil assholes WITHOUT having any disorders, in fact that’s the majority of people who are assholes. Claiming “all those guys’s evilness can ONLY be explained by them having a mental illness” actually does two things you don’t want to imply: one, that they cannot control being evil, and thus, are excused of it because “it is in their nature”, and two, it makes it significantly harder for people who have those disorders BUT are not evil people OR assholes to seek help.