if you mean blowing one's own whistle or tooting one's own horn, yes. if you mean done for not some form of personal reward, while we have had our occasional mo

if you mean blowing one's own whistle or tooting one's own horn, yes. if you mean done for not some form of personal reward, while we have had our occasional moments we are not generally known for being in the position where any one or few of us can make much of a difference; by the time most projects get to that point in any STEM field it is usually too late to unconvince someone else of its worth or value unless it is really egregious. at some point what we considered shocking becomes/became something people got used to. Add to that that since many of us are somewhat personally risk averse, for various reasons, we often do not stop things when we should. As examples: The dod warned against prediction markets in 1995-1997, and we had ai winters for REASONS, but now people are just refusing to do anything but talk about how dangerous things are as they push more r&d cash outlay, and essentially embrace the apocalypse. does whistleblowing matter? or do people just want PR? the flock thing was interesting and it is good we are pushing against centralized surveillance, but noone seems to want to pull down the billions of pages of pii of almost only americans or get rid of google map pictures. it's funny remembering the brouhaha of the original google map rovers logging wireless access point (WAP) info long long ago. whistleblowing is a crap word, incidentally. vc needs to get a conscience. and i don't mean donate or do carbon credit-type lies.