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Yeah that's exactly my concern! I want to contribute to building cool things, and building a really cool component becomes much less inspiring if it's only use
by epgui 4y ago
Yeah that's exactly my concern!
I want to contribute to building cool things, and building a really cool component becomes much less inspiring if it's only used to steer nuclear missiles. (dramatic but not unreasonable example)
- elcomet 4y agoYou could apply to work on the research infrastructure (for instance for AI)
- capableweb 4y agoAnd instead of writing infrastructure for the developers who write code for ads, you now write AI software/do AI research for a company in order to attract enough talent so they can hire developers to write infrastructure for the developers who write code for ads? Or you know, just don't work for companies who tend to collect as much user data as they can?
- elcomet 4y agoBut at least you're contributing to science