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I feel like you've watched too many movies. Evil in the real world often looks mundane and boring. It's "ah, it's not important, we have more pressing matters t

I feel like you've watched too many movies. Evil in the real world often looks mundane and boring. It's "ah, it's not important, we have more pressing matters to handle" because privacy, rights, safety or lawfulness aren't prioritised institutionally. Or there's a deadline, sales targets, revenue, growth, etc. to hit and is it really so bad if we skip the checks on those crucial parts, because it worked out the last time. Why don't we loosen the requirements a bit so we can get those cheaper parts or labor?

DataWorker 7y ago
So humans are innately evil? That seems like a rather dreary outlook.
- megous 7y ago
  Humans are capable of setting processes so that things like these can be escalated/investigated properly. Nothing innate about it.
- jplayer01 7y ago
  I think, fundamentally, that we're all capable of good and evil, and it doesn't make sense, in a lot of cases, to paint a single person as wholly evil. It's a combination of inherent personality traits combined with an environment that incentivizes and motivates certain kinds of behaviours and ways of thinking. In the right kind of system, evil is just the natural consequence and it's something we see every day, all over the world.
- monster99 7y ago
  I think that's pretty much par for the course if you look at human history. Given that our culture is being locked up and thrown away with infinite IP extension and the game industry has successfully stolen PC games for the last 20 years and we now have windows "as a service" in windows 10. Evil looks pretty much like our MO as a species.
meowface 7y ago
This is a very weird form of evil, then. This appears to be an earnest investigation into whether CA was violating their policies, and they concluded they likely were and that it needed to stop. What else do you want from them? You could argue the platform itself did not have proper technical safeguards in place to prevent this, but it's actually quite difficult to automatically detect this sort of thing. I'm not sure how else it would've been uncovered without a manual investigation like this. You could argue that this is unsurprising given that Facebook's whole purpose is to harvest people's data, but that's nothing we didn't already know. This just feels like a clickbait story to me.

DataWorker 7y ago

So humans are innately evil? That seems like a rather dreary outlook.

megous 7y ago
Humans are capable of setting processes so that things like these can be escalated/investigated properly. Nothing innate about it.
jplayer01 7y ago
I think, fundamentally, that we're all capable of good and evil, and it doesn't make sense, in a lot of cases, to paint a single person as wholly evil. It's a combination of inherent personality traits combined with an environment that incentivizes and motivates certain kinds of behaviours and ways of thinking. In the right kind of system, evil is just the natural consequence and it's something we see every day, all over the world.
monster99 7y ago
I think that's pretty much par for the course if you look at human history. Given that our culture is being locked up and thrown away with infinite IP extension and the game industry has successfully stolen PC games for the last 20 years and we now have windows "as a service" in windows 10. Evil looks pretty much like our MO as a species.

meowface 7y ago

This is a very weird form of evil, then. This appears to be an earnest investigation into whether CA was violating their policies, and they concluded they likely were and that it needed to stop. What else do you want from them? You could argue the platform itself did not have proper technical safeguards in place to prevent this, but it's actually quite difficult to automatically detect this sort of thing. I'm not sure how else it would've been uncovered without a manual investigation like this. You could argue that this is unsurprising given that Facebook's whole purpose is to harvest people's data, but that's nothing we didn't already know. This just feels like a clickbait story to me.