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When these statisticians, engineers and developers stand face to face with one of their beloved "whales" who lost his wife, children and home to his addiction w
by pimmen 9y ago
When these statisticians, engineers and developers stand face to face with one of their beloved "whales" who lost his wife, children and home to his addiction will they say "I was just doing my job, could you ever forgive me?" or will they say what they were thinking when they implemented this shit:
"Thank god you're so predictable, sir! You're not an idiot, really, we're just really good at our job! But, now you're spent."
- make3 9y agoI mean, the cigarette people for example have done much worse for much longer. Not all humans are humanists. That's why governments need to regulate what is legal and what is not, like they did in many jurisdictions with cigarettes.
- pimmen 9y agoAnd we stopped the cigarette people from advertising to children and required that they become completely transparent about their habit forming product. As you say, we can't make everyone a humanist but we can demand that everyone be transparent when they're selling a potentially life destroying product.
- IntronExon 9y agoThere will always be sociopaths, the desperate, the greedy, and the emotionally stunted who are willing to harm their fellow humans for a good payday. Software hasn’t really changed that, it just widened the scope.