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> The most consequential (rightly or wrongly) technologists of our time are failing to properly think about trust. Because that's an insanely hard problem that
by concordDance 3y ago
> The most consequential (rightly or wrongly) technologists of our time are failing to properly think about trust.
Because that's an insanely hard problem that's outside our area of expertise.
Consider how much money governments spend on all the red tape they add to increase trust. If there was naturally perfect objective alignment and trust I bet any infrastructure project would cost about 10% of what it does.
- dwb 3y agoIt is hard, but I think corporate open source users and entrepreneurial software developers have a moral responsibility to do more than I see being done in the areas that I listed. To be crystal clear, in this case where I don't think Lasse is at all culpable, the responsibility would be with the companies that profit from the work done on xz-utils.