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Here's the thing: The majority of tech jobs out there won't have you building anything harmful. If you're worried, just work there instead. There certainly are

Here's the thing: The majority of tech jobs out there won't have you building anything harmful. If you're worried, just work there instead. There certainly are highly paid, prestigious jobs in our industry where you do work in spaces that align with what you're worried about. My advice is vote with your feet. Nobody is being forced to work for bad companies making harmful products.

tpoacher 4y ago
Of course not. Nobody ever has "We're building the next mass surveillance system for totalitarian regimes" on their company's vision. They'll have "We're building a next-gen face recognition pipeline for airport security" instead. But that doesn't mean the totalitarian regime won't be 10 times as likely to jump on that technology than the airports, that the company is blissfully unaware of this fact, and that money won't talk in the end. But it also doesn't mean you shouldn't work on anything because everything can be used for bad as well as good. Otherwise nobody would do anything.