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by bem94 10y ago
I work in CPU design. So I'd add that the tools for formally verifying CPUs have come a very long way in the last two years, and the next two years look like they will be very exciting indeed.
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by bem94 10y ago
No good will come of this. Certainly no one walks away holding the moral high ground.
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by bem94 10y ago
This is fantastic to see. It's a shame that more thought doesn't go into the accessibility of apps/services in the context of mental health. It's even more of a shame some of the comments here imply companies shouldn&#x2
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by bem94 10y ago
Indeed! It makes the discussions very difficult and all the more necessary. It's interesting what you say about guidelines. I actually went looking for anything which might resemble an engineers code of ethics. There are a couple out t
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by bem94 10y ago
> I believe the reason is that fiction speaks to the whole mind, not just the part of the brain that parses language and performs algebra. Well said.
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by bem94 10y ago
Maybe this isn't entirely surprising given the audience, but it seems like most of the comments and discussions here prefer to deal with topics very much contained within the Starwars universe, rather than looking at the parallels th
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by bem94 10y ago
I agree, it is very relevant and especially to the HN crowd (who have always appeared deaf to this sort of thing from my limited experience here, though I am happy to be corrected on that point!). We all work on tools which might get twist
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by bem94 10y ago
I don't think the point is to actually derive ethics from fiction. It's the other way around. We express our ethics, morals and associated conundrums through fiction as a way of explaining them. This is especially important when t
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Rogue One – An Engineering Ethics Story(scifipolicy.com)
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by bem94 10y ago
Yeah that sounds like a dangerously feasible (technically speaking) thing to do. It certainly falls under my category of evil too. Using someones device for ends or as means to something the customer was not explicitly aware of when buying
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by bem94 10y ago
Surveillance capitalism.
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by bem94 10y ago
Sounds more like a feature from Twitter's point of view.