Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns

Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by teachrdan on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:40PM (#16803306)

That's not exactly my recollection from the book. I believe they thought closely about how the bomb was needed to end the war in Europe as quickly as possible.

What they failed to do was reevaluate the project after the Allies won the war in Europe. It was after Hiroshima they said, "oh, we fucked up." (to parapahrase)

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by r00fus on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:48PM (#16803399)

Exactly. There is no war/enemy here. Only ideals, whose ethics are now openly questioned.

I think the public discussion probably hits FB most in hiring - I mean, if I were doing an interview there I'd at least ask the question and see how they responded (maybe negotiation point on what I'd be working on or increased comp).

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by IAmEveryone on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:20PM (#16804928)

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

—- J. Robert Oppenheimer, after watching the first test

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by ballooney on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:02PM (#16805396)

"Sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it."

-- J. von Neumann, about Oppenheimer

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by B1FF_PSUVM on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:36AM (#16809150)

Doubleplusgood, speaking as a bit of a quotation hound who hadn't come across that one. There's a whiff of La Rochefoucauld to it, too.

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