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source is this engineering ethics textbook. the rest of it seems like regular things engineering students need to learn, like “why should i care about other people”
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Makes me glad I had an ‘ethics of computer science’ module during my degree, taught by a leftist prof(he opened the first lecture by saying ‘I’m a little to the left… of Stalin’ I was the only one who laughed lol)
Anyway it basically boiled down to don’t program jets for the military you’re responsible for that shit and be careful if you working on pacemakers
i get the feeling most of the universities that use this textbook are starting off every ethics lecture with “this class is brought to you by raytheon”
that’s pretty much what my class was… same with the philosophy of technology… it was so biased that nearly the whole class fought the professor on nearly every subject because he was always pushing for MORE DRM, MORE CONTROLS, MORE POWER for GUBMINT to do whats best!
Lmao as if any regime anywhere gaf about someone saying ‘due process’
liberals genuinely think if north koreans read harry potter or whatever they would all start talking like mayo pete. that’s why they had that stand at that white hat hacker con where you could “donate” your flash drives to north korea.
it’d be funny if someone pulled a sneaky and hid their company’s network login credentials in there
And then those flash drives introduce covid into the DPRK but libs don’t understand why the government keeps trying to suppress freeze peach
is that actually how they got covid in the dprk?
DPRK: your balloons introduced covid in our communities
ROK: “nuh uh”
International community: “look at these false claims from the EVIL country!”
lmao liberals think everyone cares so much about their trite, glib slogans
let’s not pretend that Palantir or the pegasus devs cared about ethics lol
Wait… this is supposed to be referencing the DPRK? This just feels more like the US and I’m not even making a joke.
i think it’s supposed to be whatever the empire needs it to be. i must be loyle to my capo. for moral reasons.
I’m sorry. I don’t understand the problem. Shouldn’t engineering students think about questions like this? It’s definitely phrased in a poor way, I’d like them to think about the use of the program in their own country too…but this is a start?
I’ve taken a few engineering ethics classes in my day. None of them ever directly reference something like this lol. Usually they mention the ford pinto scandal, but I’ve never experienced them ever talking about creating weapons of war or surveillance.
I guess this is a start?
I learned not to create weapons of war from Real Genius.
the question they should think about is, “is it ethical to make mass surveillance equipment”, not “is it ethical not to follow american embargoes”
