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> So think about this: say your CEO asks you to make a missile specifically to target and kill children. Well, I wouldn't and I would get fired, and the CEO wo
by pyrale 3y ago
> So think about this: say your CEO asks you to make a missile specifically to target and kill children.
Well, I wouldn't and I would get fired, and the CEO would find someone with less scruples. And you would say "Damn, these technologists have no mercy" even if 99 engineers have refused before the one that accepted.
You're simply falling for survivorship bias.
- palata 3y ago> You're simply falling for survivorship bias. What if I told you that I worked in fields that raise such ethical questions, and I have seen with my own eyes how there was never a single instance with 99 engineers who refuse for 1 who accepts? For what I have seen, there was no survivorship bias. And then regarding LLMs in particular, I struggle to find people around me who actually question the ethical problems they bring. They just don't seem to even imagine that they could think about ethics. So unless you don't ask them to do something that is extreme (design a weapon to kill children), they just don't question anything at all.