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If I wrote such software that drove otherwise healthy people to kill themselves I would consider myself responsible for their deaths. The motivation to deny thi
by KittenInABox 2y ago
If I wrote such software that drove otherwise healthy people to kill themselves I would consider myself responsible for their deaths. The motivation to deny this would be immense. I still have no sympathy for him; in my mind, I think he killed people.
- datavirtue 2y agoDude, it's just software. The responsibility lies with management 100%.
- lowbloodsugar 2y agoRight up to the point where (FTA) he provided expert testimony.
- Devasta 2y ago"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they go down? That's not my department." says Werner Von Braun...
- Jtsummers 2y ago> Dude, it's just software. The responsibility lies with management 100%. If you're an engineer, that's not true. The responsibility largely (though not entirely) lies with you. You're the one informing management on whether the system is sound, safe, and fit for purpose. If you don't want that kind of responsibility, don't call yourself an engineer. And definitely don't give expert testimony that your system couldn't possibly be at fault.
- datavirtue 2y agoThey had a responsibility to establish actual standing for accusing and prosecuting someone. Software is irrelevant at that point. If the software tells me to kill someone I'm going to hopefully step back and think shit over.
- kergonath 2y agoHe testified against them. At this point he is complicit.