Aside: I absolutely adore the design of this website. I’ve tried to do something like it in my personal projects, but I’m not a designer and it always comes out

Aside: I absolutely adore the design of this website. I’ve tried to do something like it in my personal projects, but I’m not a designer and it always comes out as the wish.com version. Props and respect. Serious: I think this actually highlights the importance of ethics as a field of study for everyone going into computing/software/information work professionally. I don’t think any of us want to live in a world where our computers are lying, tricking, deceiving, fooling, shaming, or manipulating us. Yet so many of us ignore the ethical implications of our work to make a quick buck. It is clear as day to me that these things are wrong. It wasn’t always like that. In college I thought the idea of teaching ethics was stupid, and we should do whatever we can to fuck people over (I wouldn’t have used those terms). I don’t know why I grew out of that, but I did, and I think the world might be better off if the people who knew better intervened earlier in people’s careers. This is your sign to reflect on how many times you have been an enemy to your fellow man through your work (and if your work scales, an enemy to thousands to billions of people), and start your job search if that number bothers you.