  The Bousso-Polchinski mechanism for discretely fine-tuning the cosmological
constant favors a large bare negative cosmological constant. I argue (using
generalizations of results of Klebanov and Tseytlin) that a similar mechanism
for fine-tuning the scalar masses to small values favors a large bare negative
(i.e. tachyonic) scalar mass. I comment briefly on the related issue of the
role of low energy supersymmetry in string theory.
