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I think it’s safe to say people wouldn’t be working for any company if they thought it was evil, so your whole point is moot.

• scotty79 4y ago
  > I think it’s safe to say people wouldn’t be working for any company if they thought it was evil Did you read what you wrote?
• ben_w 4y ago
  Hah no. Lots of people work for organisations they actively think are evil because it's the best gig going; plenty of other people find ways to justify how their particular organisation isn't evil despite all it does so they can avoid the pain of cognitive dissonance and keep getting paid. My current approval of OpenAI is conditional, not certain. (I don't work there, and I at least hope I will be "team-think-carefully" rather than "team OpenAI can't possibly be wrong because I like them").
• soulofmischief 4y ago
  The conclusion derived from this argument, that there are no evil companies, doesn't seem to match up with empirical data
• coldtea 4y ago
  Huh? People have historically worked on all kinds of companies and organizations doing evil shit, while knowing they do evil shit, and not even justyfing it as "bad but necessary" or via some ideology, just doing it for profit... Drug cartels have all sorts of engineers on board, for one small example...