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I understood the point directly. The culture at large is going to do what it does. There is way to support liberty and deny the right to be a ninny. But tech
by smitty1e 6y ago
I understood the point directly.
The culture at large is going to do what it does. There is way to support liberty and deny the right to be a ninny.
But technology should be about the code. It is better to be diverse, because being a cool, gentle, adult human being is simply the Golden Rule applied; rather than flogging diversity.
We see endless codes of conduct, statistical analyses, and innocents getting thrashed for some purely Kafka-esque infraction.
I would say: "to hell with that" except that in many ways, hell has arrived.
- smitty1e 6y agoEdit: There is NO way to support liberty and deny the right to be a ninny.
- happytoexplain 6y agoOnly if you hold the view of absolutism, which is incongruous with society on a fundamental level.
- smitty1e 6y agoI'm not sure we're communicating. Repackaged, my point is that once I set myself up un control of definitions, I can always label your behavior a threat to public safety and effectively jail you.
- M2Ys4U 6y ago>But technology should be about the code. Should it? Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum, it is used by people. Ignoring that fact doesn't make the ethical implication of the technology magically go away.
- smitty1e 6y ago. . .which point I intended to go after when I said: > It is better to be diverse, because being a cool, gentle, adult human being is simply the Golden Rule applied
- eeZah7Ux 6y ago> But technology should be about the code Science does not get a special exception to turn off one's moral compass and ignore the ethical impact of research and publication.
- smitty1e 6y agoIndeed, my next sentence addresses the moral compass in the form of the Golden Rule. Any formulation of my point is that action excels words.