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Big tech is the least of my worries. And in my observation is the most ethical amongst all kinds corporations. I think people like attacking big tech because
by max_ 2y ago
Big tech is the least of my worries.
And in my observation is the most ethical amongst all kinds corporations.
I think people like attacking big tech because it's a soft target.
Meta using my messages to sell me more products of what I may actually like. It's isn't that evil.
Go look up what people in banking, oil, minning, spyware & manufacturing are doing. You will find murders, war financing, people being cut up with bone saws, people being enslaved by debt, people being bombed into bits while sitting in their apartments.
The reason why people don't talk about this kind of "real" evil is because the contenders are _actually dangerous_ they don't play games and most of us are spinless cowards.
The only reason there is alot of backlash on big tech because big tech is actually not dangerous.
If you want to improve ethics and actually move the needle look talk of people actually doing evil.
- palata 2y agoI would be more nuanced than that. First, things like murders are not exactly ethical problems: they are criminal problems. They fall in a different category in that you can go to the police. Try to go to the police to complain about surveillance capitalism and you'll see the difference. There are fully honest people who contribute to unethical stuff Big Tech does (ask an engineer working in AI with a BigTech salary if they ever think about ethics: they get a ton of money to have fun, why should they care?). Second, because they are not the worst guys does not mean that they are not bad guys. Still worth improving. And third, BigTech is dangerous. If you don't see the problem with surveillance capitalism (now moving to a new level with LLMs), then you are missing something.