I dislike Malcolm Turnbull intensely but when he made that crack about the laws of mathematics v the law of Australia he trolled you all so hard that I have to respect it
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I dislike Malcolm Turnbull intensely but when he made that crack about the laws of mathematics v the law of Australia he trolled you all so hard that I have to respect it
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What you heard: lol Malcolm doesn’t think maths is real, what an idiot
What he meant: in a nerds v lawyers fight, lawyers win
He was right
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@fsvo i mean… not really tho? yeah, lawyers can arrange for people to be fined, rounded up, put in jail, but they can’t write a law that magically makes an encryptian algorithm with a back door safe for banking
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@zens if you take his statement as some kind of claim about ontological hierarchies, which it wasn't. It was a joking assertion of social dominance, which was both true (the legislative class gets to make the laws, regardless of whether technicalities make them ineffective or bad) and it had the bonus side effect that it is still annoying nerds seven years later.
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@fsvo if the joke is meant to be that the government has free reign to abuse its citizens to enforce whatever illogic it feels like that isn’t very funny or clever. if there’s something deeper here then maybe you can explain it.
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@zens *deep breath* ok, so the firm default assumption of Turnbull and folks like him is that the "law of Australia" is essentially benevolent and good and can be trusted to backdoor technologies in ways which only affect bad people.
The point of his remark was to reassure his audience that any concerns raised by people with technical knowledge were unimportant, just nerds whinging, and would not change the essential goodness of the law.
It's not a very funny joke, and people like you or I do not find it funny because the joke's on us.
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