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> Perhaps they have something dystopian in mind? Oh come on. We've all conceded the days of "Don't be evil" are long gone but Google's type of evil hasn't quit
by andybak 8y ago
> Perhaps they have something dystopian in mind?
Oh come on. We've all conceded the days of "Don't be evil" are long gone but Google's type of evil hasn't quite shifted to that of cackling supervillain. It's an evil bred from arrogance, naivety and self-interest - not from an active intent to corrupt society.
- go_away_nsa 8y agoThey are working on censoring search results for the Chinese government. Worse, they are opening a AI research center in China as well. All of that research will be in the hands of the Chinese government and weaponized to control their own population and against foreign countries. Meanwhile, Google backed out of a contract with the US military after moral outrage by their employees.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoIn other words: It's the same kind of evil as all real evil, not the kind of evil that is purely fictional. Your point being?
- andybak 8y agoI think you're making the same point as me in that case. It was morningcoffee that had James Bond supervillains in mind.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoIC--I read them more as "something that is dystopian" rather than "something that is intended to be dystopian".
- collyw 8y ago> It's an evil bred from arrogance, naivety and self-interest - not from an active intent to corrupt society. Couldn't the same be said of Nazism?