Destructive Obedience Without Pressure

Obedience lite.

Jerry M. Burger's partial replication of Stanley Milgram's (1963, 1965, 1974) classic experiments on obedience to authority is considered from the viewpoint of a contributor and witness to the original obedience experiments. Although Burger's replication succeeded in terms of gaining the approval of his local institutional review board, it did so by removing a large portion of the stressful cir...

Alias burying: Unique variables without destructive reads

An unshared object can be accessed without regard to possible conflicts with other parts of a system, whether concurrent or single-threaded. A unique variable (sometimes known as a ‘free’ or ‘linear’ variable) is one that either is null or else refers to an unshared object. Being able to declare and check which variables are unique improves a programmer’s ability to avoid program faults. In pre...

The destructive nature of power without status

Alias Killing: Unique Variables without Destructive Reads

An unshared object can be accessed without regard to possible connicts with other parts of a system, whether concurrent or single-threaded. A unique variable (sometimes known as a \free" or \linear" variable) is one that either is null or else refers to an unshared object. Being able to declare and check which variables are unique improves a pro-grammer's ability to avoid program faults. In pre...

Procrastination and Obedience

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