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> It's not my job to figure out the eighth order effects of publishing something on GitHub. That's an argumentum ad absurdum. Would you say it is your job to
by webmaven 5y ago
> It's not my job to figure out the eighth order effects of publishing something on GitHub.
That's an argumentum ad absurdum. Would you say it is your job to figure out the 4th order effects? 3rd? 2nd? 1st?
Where do you think the job of technologists should end?
- nexuist 5y agoI think that technologists and lawmakers have very different jobs in society and the goal of advancing technology implicitly furthers the ability for mankind to commit atrocities. Every benefit we bring into the world can also be used to kill people. It's not our specialty to decide what is or isn't acceptable; in a democratic republic it is up to the politicians and their voters to determine that. I just think that self censorship is shooting yourself in the foot, since someone somewhere else will eventually release their own GPT-3, and don't you want your society to have already experienced and dealt with it before theirs has? Rather than hiding the problem, we should face it head on and solve it.