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Not everyone agrees with your ethics. I have no financial stake in Facebook (don't work there), but really don't see many moral problems with what it does. And
by morgante 10y ago
Not everyone agrees with your ethics.
I have no financial stake in Facebook (don't work there), but really don't see many moral problems with what it does. And I think their mission of connecting the world in a single easily discoverable network is absolutely world-changing and noteworthy. It's changed my world for sure.
- scalio 10y agoI think a lot of fear is rightly grounded in history: it's clear that this much power in very few hands turns to shit at some point. Facebook may well be humanity's biggest concentration of power (knowledge being power). How do you keep an advantage when the other side knows >> than you could ever know? There's also the disparity in availability of AI, since large applications need powerful and thus expensive hardware.
- morgante 10y agoTo be clear, I don't think Facebook is flawless. All the issues you bring up are definitely true. I just think it's unfair to assume that these issues automatically make Facebook evil and that there's no good they do.
- scalio 10y agoThey certainly could do good, theoretically. Problem is their business model, because manipulating people doesn't fall under "doing good". As long as they make profit by selling people, they're the opposite of good because their activity goes against peoples' interest.