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I’m talking strictly about the day to day engineering of pushing code and accidentally breaking something which is what “move fast and break things” is about an
by vlovich123 3y ago
I’m talking strictly about the day to day engineering of pushing code and accidentally breaking something which is what “move fast and break things” is about and how it was understood by engineers within Facebook.
You now have raised a totally separate issue about the overall strategy and business development of the company which you’d be right about - if it were required to have a PE license to run an engineering company, Zuckerberg would have to have had his PE license revoked and any PEs complicit in what they did with tuning for addictiveness should similarly be punished. But the lack of regulation in any engineering projects that don’t deal directly with human safety and how businesses are allowed to run is a political problem.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoI see we agree, and that as far as day-to-day engineering goes I'd probably care very little about whether a bug in Facebook stopped someone seeing a friends kitten pics. But on the issue I'm really concerned about, do you think "tuning for addictiveness" on a scale of about 3 billion users goes beyond mere recklessness, and what do we do about this "political problem" that such enormous diffuse harms are somehow not considered matters of "human safety" in engineering circles? Is it time we formalised some broader harms?
- vlovich123 3y agoI think there are political movements to try to regulate social media. There’s lots of poorly regulated sub industries within the tech field (advertising is another one).