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The real evil is always in not asking and not thinking about the meaning of the work. If you work at a company because it has a great engineering culture, but
by aporetics 4y ago
The real evil is always in not asking and not thinking about the meaning of the work.
If you work at a company because it has a great engineering culture, but the work it happens to make it super efficient to turn babies into cowfeed, you’re still evil…for not thinking about the meaning of what you do.
If you work at a company because it has an awesome engineering culture, and the work is to make it really easy and efficient for other companies to do whatever they do, how do you assess (and take responsibility) for your work? Can you? If you can’t, what are you doing?
If you work in the cloud, this is you.
- whatshisface 4y agoYou have got to make some finer distinctions for what is or isn't evil than "the cloud." All you will accomplish with overbroad strokes is convincing people that ethical distinctions do not actually exist. As for what the distinctions actually are, for a start, how about products that harm parties which have not agreed to anything?
- aporetics 4y agoAh. I wasn’t calling the cloud evil, I was showing that working in the cloud poses some difficult questions about how to identify the meaning of the work. It would be easy to defer such a task. (But what would it mean to spend your life working in such a way that the meaning of your work is always up to someone else?) I was pretty clear in locating the root of evil in thoughtlessness.