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Re: "The ethics in technology"
@mozz, with all due respect, corporations are specifically created to be anthropomorphized! And they can be, and usually are, evil -- golems designed to extract every penny of profit -- everything else be damned. And while corporations don't sit around coming up with evil ideas, the executives are empowered to sit around and come up evil ideas! Screwing people is not a goal, but is not a deterrent for implementing profitable strategies, and if that is not evil, we may have different definitions.
2023-07-27 · 6 months ago
The ethics in technology — We developers should stop just looking at the technical side of our work only. There’s social, economic and values to be taken into account when we put our minds to solve a problem. We tend to go blindly into it, without thinking what it can cause when it is released into the world. It’s like if we put a bunch of developers into a secret project to develop an Internet World Wide Nuclear Bomb a là Project Manhattan… the leaders shouldn’t really have to hide what they...