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Nobody trusts this sector. Was the same for doctors a hundred years ago. Now doctors take an oath and lose their license if they are caught doing something unet

Nobody trusts this sector. Was the same for doctors a hundred years ago. Now doctors take an oath and lose their license if they are caught doing something unethical. Maybe the tech sector will get there one day too. Until then assume hostility.

FLUX-YOU 8y ago
Will probably need a high profile case before anything gets moving (since there's a LOT of money to fight back against ethical laws). We need a governing ethics body to determine ethical guidelines, otherwise people are just going to invent their own ethics hosted on Github and that's bad if you follow it and have to go to court.
shredprez 8y ago
Oath and licensing aside, public trust in doctors isn't great. Still, some code of ethics and associated incentive structure for tech would be great. But as long as the industry can stay just ahead of legal ramifications and stay solvent... The hostility is an easy hoop to jump through.
buboard 8y ago
> Was the same for doctors a hundred years ago. Now doctors take an oath and lose their license The Hippocratic oath is 2200 years old.
- scrumbledober 8y ago
  I don't really care what oath the doctor took (especially considering the actual wording of the hippocratic oath) but I definitely take comfort in the medical board's ability to revoke their license.
  - buboard 8y ago
    The point is that the comparison with doctors doesn't make much sense (and neither is medical ethics a recent thing). Doctors are judged by their continuous practice, but developers/entrepreneurs would not be ethically "judged" because of their programming style, but because of the things they create, which transcend them and remain in their absence, much like anything in engineering. (let alone that revokign a license does nothing to stop them from building it anyway)
    - utkarshsinha 8y ago
      Would having a "license" for companies instead of individual devs make more sense? Imagine Google losing its license to use personal data to target advertisements - this would make them much more sensitive to protecting their users from malicious entities.
gowld 8y ago
You need comically gross negligence/criminality to lose your license as a doctor. Stuff like making dance videos during surgery, or raping a dozen patients, or smuggling $1M worth of drugs.

FLUX-YOU 8y ago

Will probably need a high profile case before anything gets moving (since there's a LOT of money to fight back against ethical laws). We need a governing ethics body to determine ethical guidelines, otherwise people are just going to invent their own ethics hosted on Github and that's bad if you follow it and have to go to court.

shredprez 8y ago

Oath and licensing aside, public trust in doctors isn't great. Still, some code of ethics and associated incentive structure for tech would be great. But as long as the industry can stay just ahead of legal ramifications and stay solvent... The hostility is an easy hoop to jump through.

buboard 8y ago

> Was the same for doctors a hundred years ago. Now doctors take an oath and lose their license The Hippocratic oath is 2200 years old.

scrumbledober 8y ago
I don't really care what oath the doctor took (especially considering the actual wording of the hippocratic oath) but I definitely take comfort in the medical board's ability to revoke their license.
- buboard 8y ago
  The point is that the comparison with doctors doesn't make much sense (and neither is medical ethics a recent thing). Doctors are judged by their continuous practice, but developers/entrepreneurs would not be ethically "judged" because of their programming style, but because of the things they create, which transcend them and remain in their absence, much like anything in engineering. (let alone that revokign a license does nothing to stop them from building it anyway)
  - utkarshsinha 8y ago
    Would having a "license" for companies instead of individual devs make more sense? Imagine Google losing its license to use personal data to target advertisements - this would make them much more sensitive to protecting their users from malicious entities.

gowld 8y ago

You need comically gross negligence/criminality to lose your license as a doctor. Stuff like making dance videos during surgery, or raping a dozen patients, or smuggling $1M worth of drugs.