• seang96@spgrn.com
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    1 year ago

    Software engineers have ethics classes, I’d imagine this would fall highly under unethical, just under building software for the military which google employees have protested in the past.

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        1 year ago

        It was required for my degree, I’m sure it is required at more than just my university lol

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          1 year ago

          Not my university. Outside of the engineering classes and prequisites for engineering classes, we only had to take rhetoric and a foreign language.

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            1 year ago

            That’s disappointing to hear. Talked about ethics throughout my courses and one was half the class. Hopefully more professors and instructions sprinkle it in there at least.

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      1 year ago

      Losing your ad blocker on chrome is “just under” software designed to kill people? Lol really? Oh the oppression

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        1 year ago

        Sure it won’t kill people like programming drones, but it is still unethical and would affect ~5 billion people negatively.

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          Right, but you said “just under”. There’s a preeetty fuckin wide gap between blocking ad blockers and dropping bombs guy.

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            1 year ago
            1. It’s not just ad blockers that is m issue with this. Read Mozilla’s post for a bunch of valid concerns.
            2. If you read my reply there is a comma prior to the just which makes a pause if it makes it better you could read it as [it’s] just under… Either way I am not trying to make the wide gape you are referring to, I was simply stating it as a matter of fact more ethical then programming for military use but still unethical.
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              1 year ago

              I’m not saying concerns aren’t valid, I just took your comment to be calling it almost comparable to military software.

              “…, it’s just under…” means the same thing, but I think you mean “it’s just under” as in “although, it’s under” rather than “just” being a measurement?