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> But if your domestic society shifts to where building camps is an upstanding economic sector... Is that the case, though? It seems to me that in the last few

by scribu 9y ago

> But if your domestic society shifts to where building camps is an upstanding economic sector... Is that the case, though? It seems to me that in the last few years the tone has shifted in the opposite direction, where even the mainstream is starting to question the overall utility of social networks and other surveilance-filled software.

mindslight 9y ago
Talking sure. But has any of this effectively shifted the investment focus? Founders have not wanted to be creating surveillance-based companies the whole time. The standard course is for that functionality be added afterwards for monetization. In order for the engineers' ethical judgment to have mattered, they had to have prevented this change a priori by designing the software to treat the future company itself as an attacker. This is very expensive.