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> Sounds funny that an ethics class gets heavy cheating. Good observation - got me thinking. I see lots of suggestions here about requiring ethics training/cla

• neilv 3y ago
  One problem doing this for tech is that we've normalized so much bad behavior. For example, go back 30 years, and make ordinary software spy on its users, or otherwise act against users' interests, and I think you'd be seen as evil and possibly criminal. One promising thing, though, is that college students might still be be more open to confronting issues of ethics and morality. (Though often it's only "Revolutionaries till graduation", because of sheltered circumstances or social fashion.) But college is a bit late, and students are already being driven to mercenary behavior by e.g., competition for FAANG jobs (like I used to mainly hear about desperate/ruthless behavior by some pre-meds). Ideally, we teach better values from early age, including by example.
• denton-scratch 3y ago
  > can ethics be effectively trained into a person Maybe. But that's not what an ethics class is for; it's for learning about ethics, it's not for learning how to be ethical.