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Why don't we just hold the people who create the products accountable just as we do for any other product?
by kwhitefoot 8y ago
Why don't we just hold the people who create the products accountable just as we do for any other product?
- colejohnson66 8y agoSometimes it’s not the programmer’s fault, but they’ll always be scapegoated
- justtopost 8y agoWhen does that distinction end? Writing code for targeting? The code for mixing gas chamber chamicals? At what point do you stand up and accept you are doing evil, and take corrective action? Sure, working for Boeing or Google doesn't make you evil. But where is the line when you are asked to do something, perhaps trivial, to advance a project that denies humans rights, or life? When do you take your spine and walk?
- syn0byte 8y agoNo one is writing obviously evil code. They are just writing "chemical mixing", "pattern recognition", "statistical analytics" algorithms. There is no good or evil but thinking makes it so...
- kwhitefoot 8y agoWho mentioned programmers? "People who create the algorithm" includes the engineering manager, product designer, marketing department, mapping service providers in the case of satnav, various other subject matter consultants, etc., not just the programmers. In fact the programmers who implement the algorithm often have no say in the behaviour of that algorithm