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> people seem to have no trouble with casually glossing over the ethics and morality of what they work on Sinclair's law still applies: "It is difficult to get
by musicale 2y ago
> people seem to have no trouble with casually glossing over the ethics and morality of what they work on
Sinclair's law still applies: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Which I thought was interesting to see at the end of:
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/i-was-wrong-about-the-ethics-crisis/ https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/i-was-wrong-about-the-ethics-cr...
(Sinclair's law likely applies to ACM and to other technical societies that accept money from big tech.)
> Gotta do what boss tells me to do
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders