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I've wondered if things might be compartmentalized enough in certain BigCorps that developers don't realize they are working on classified (or funded as dual-us

• verisimi 4y ago
  Things are absolutely compartmentalised. If devs genuinely believe that they are working for the greater good, what's to answer? But, pretending that you don't know what you do know, that you don't realise you are doing something that will negatively impact others, esp when it is easy to find these things out, won't wash. Remaining ignorant is a choice after all. I suspect that we will judge ourselves. If you find yourself wanting, there's time to change. > For AI-in-the-loop, similarly for a long time I have framed that as an extension of heuristic-based-control-system development. I suppose implicitly that puts some or all of the onus on the developers. Well, yes - AI doesn't come out of nowhere, it didn't invent and code itself. At least, I don't think that's how it occurred :) People have choices about what they do. They can choose to believe they live in a materialistic, amoral reality - as they are taught at school - and then pretend that they are 'good' with no culpability because they are doing what they are told (coding dystopia). Or they can try to become individuals and try to uncover the nature of reality for themselves and according to their principles and truth.