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> As an engineer, you are responsible for your inventions To a point. Intention and context matter more. If you build low-height bridges because at the time it
by brodouevencode 4y ago
> As an engineer, you are responsible for your inventions
To a point. Intention and context matter more. If you build low-height bridges because at the time it was the economical thing to do, and perhaps not even considering bus sizes, then you are not responsible. This happens ALL THE TIME in software.
- dragontamer 4y ago> If you build low-height bridges because at the time it was the economical thing to do When I talk about "racist bridges", I'm talking about the well known case of Robert Moses. Most people who have studied the ethics of engineering should be familiar with him.
- brodouevencode 4y agoCorrect, but not everyone knows this case. So to put an even finer point to it - context matters a helluva lot.
- dragontamer 4y agoFair. Its a bit of a controversial topic, and I expect that historians will continue to revisit the issue of Robert Moses as the decades go on.