I’m willing to concede that it can be hard to speculate what the technology will be used for, but sometimes it’s very easy. Wernher von Braun knew about the Hol

I’m willing to concede that it can be hard to speculate what the technology will be used for, but sometimes it’s very easy. Wernher von Braun knew about the Holocaust and that the missiles he built was going to be used by the same regime. The person who works at Facebook in the comment I responded to, who doesn’t want to get all political and just write code, could still have heard about what the technology is used for. Once you have confirmation that what you build will be used for harm I think you should reflect on that. Sure, it might be that the technology is used for so much good that you can defend building it even if it’s also used for harming people, and that’s good. As long as you actually did some thinking and didn’t just say ”I don’t really care about all the bad stuff it’s used for, I just want to make cool code”.