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Google's "Don't be evil" carries no more weight than your local mechanic's "The best car shop in town!". It's cheap branding.
by GuiA 13y ago
Google's "Don't be evil" carries no more weight than your local mechanic's "The best car shop in town!". It's cheap branding.
- sneak 13y agoYou and I know this, but I imagine there are many Googlers who take it to heart, and the cognitive dissonance involved in their building war machines may be useful to our ends of reducing American-perpetrated violence.
- cromwellian 13y agoHow about we wait until Google actually starts building such weapons before we start accusing them of actually wanting to do so.
- sneak 13y agoWhat makes you think we'd ever be told?
- PavlovsCat 13y agoHow about we wait until someone actually accuses Google of that before we accuse them of accusing Google of that.
- ams6110 13y agoIt is flatly impossible to build such devices and prevent them from being weaponized.
- btown 13y agoBut what is more evil - that your coworker works on encryption technology that is used to pilot drones, or that your coworker didn't work on that technology, and thus in order to foil a terrorist plot, ground missions were required that ended up costing the lives of a strict superset of people? Don't get me wrong - I don't condone the lengths to which our government uses war technology, but as an engineer, the probability distribution over {my technology will be evil by some metric, my technology will promote good in this world by that metric} is by no means certain.
- esrauch 13y agoThe former is more evil. The potential disasters associated with the latter are a significant deterrent to doing it unless it really matters.
- CamperBob2 13y ago(Shrug) I don't care what you're working on, it can be used for evil. It is never rational to fixate on tools and objects. Worry more about actions.
- sneak 13y agoIt seems your "foil a terrorist plot" is some sort of preemptive policing. Why are we doing that, again? And who are these "terrorists"?
- pekk 13y agoPuzzling that you would only be concerned with violence from one source.
- ProAm 13y agoIt used to mean something... I wonder for how long