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But 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, an
by btown 13y ago
But 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"?