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"The relevant question is how this affects the technology" Is arguably the whole problem with our industry in a nutshell. The more relevant and largely ignored
by whyleyc 9y ago
"The relevant question is how this affects the technology"
Is arguably the whole problem with our industry in a nutshell. The more relevant and largely ignored question should be "how this affects human beings".
- tree_of_item 9y agoThis just seems like a rhetorical trick to me. Obviously we're talking about humans, it's just through the lens of technology. The website has to be about something in particular besides "aren't humans great??".
- whyleyc 9y agoActually I think rhetoric matters enormously - how you frame a question affects how you come to think about a situation. If you ask a question "through the lense of technology" ("Can we solve this hard computer-vision problem"?) you arrive at different answers to those you would get if you ask the question through (say) the lense of societal benefits or humanity's relationship to technology ("Is it ok for a badly programmed computer to accidentally kill someone"?). I say this not to criticise the enormous benefit this technology could bring, but rather to provoke us to think about the implications of the technologies that we are creating outside the confines of an IDE.