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> We need the people with morals to stand up against doing this kind of work. At the very least it shrinks the talent pool Very much this. But taking a stand
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> We need the people with morals to stand up against doing this kind
of work. At the very least it shrinks the talent pool
Very much this. But taking a stand first requires some agonising
self-searching, educational leaps, being able to talk to others about
it. It requires no less than a change in culture. But it is the most
promising counter to tyranny. As Stalin sound in the Soviet Union,
without the engineers it all falls apart. This is what I mean by
"digital literacy 2.0". I hope some of you will read "Ethics for
Hackers" when I get it out, and that we can get technical civics and
ethics as part of every CS course.
- bsenftner 4y agoI was one of these people, a moral ethics voice operating as the principal engineer of a leading enterprise FR system (ranked in top 5 by FRVT multiple years). I received major pushback on my opinions, had orders to no longer make professional contacts outside the company, and was given overworking deadlines when opportunities to influence deployments or expectations arose. My big issue with FR is the lack of training, such that high school educated operators are given the impression the software is far more accurate than it is, and that the software has an authority it does not. For these reasons, and the generalized software work/life balance abuse that industry demands, I quit a few years ago.