{"id":788,"date":"2012-12-30T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2012-12-30T05:02:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T13:02:14","slug":"ideological-fork-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/ideological-fork-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideological Fork Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In computing, a <em>fork bomb<\/em> is a program that recursively spawns instances of itself, rapaciously capturing all available system resources. A similar sort of thing can happen, at least metaphorically, within a human mind, when you get so taken with a particular idea (I expect <em>taken<\/em> is the right word in more ways than one) that it consumes your conscious thoughts, the arguments and counterarguments and countercounterarguments bubbling up and expanding until you can't do or think about anything else. If that one idea is your lifework, then this is probably a good thing. But if <em>not<\/em>\u2014if there's something more important you want to <em>do<\/em> with your life rather than obsess about this one idea\u2014then the cacaphony of cognitive noise is a serious vulnerability, as fatal as entering &quot;:(){ :|: &amp; };:&quot; at a Bash prompt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In computing, a fork bomb is a program that recursively spawns instances of itself, rapaciously capturing all available system resources. A similar sort of thing can happen, at least metaphorically, within a human mind, when you get so taken with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/ideological-fork-bombs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}