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It would definitely be helpful from a corporate strategy perspective, but I think the real solution is educating engineers in the humanities or liberal arts.
by nsriv 8y ago
It would definitely be helpful from a corporate strategy perspective, but I think the real solution is educating engineers in the humanities or liberal arts.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoThat sounds like a great way to waste time and create barriers of entry to the field.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoBarriers to entry are not necessarily a negative. I want my doctor to have an "MD" credential as a barrier to providing me care, for example. Too many technologists with too little empathy and ethics makes the world dystopian "because I can" at scale.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoIf you can come up with a way to make people more moral that works, that sounds great. Right now I can't think of any.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoLegislation and regulation as a hard stop, ethics staff as guardrails.
- NateEag 8y agoLegislation does not make anyone more moral. It gives society the right and responsibility to punish people caught violating it. Those are two very different things.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoI argue it nudges in the right direction. I agree you can't force someone to be moral anymore than you can force them to be decent or civil. That's what parents, free will, and introspection are for.
- NateEag 8y agoFair point. I suppose law does provide some pressure towards better behavior, even if it only very rarely touches the mind or the heart. Of course, it's only a nudge towards being moral when the law itself is moral, which is obviously not always the case.