Re:Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience
by Fnoord on Saturday August 25, 2018 @05:35AM
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Seems like a game theory [1] though I have no clue which one.
The problem in your reasoning lies with "Suppose there were a technology X which was going to be invented eventually." This is simply not true. If you look at the size of the world population it is a given nearly every person can use their fist and nearly every person can punch someone else (which we -generally- have laws against).
That is a completely different level than inventing something. You use the example of nuclear scientists. Not the whole world is able to grasp the science behind that. Its the same with programming and hacking. So the amount of people who have to make the conscious decision to build the technology yes/no or any other ethical decision is much smaller than you appear to argue in your premise, and if all refuse your premise is false.
Which means that your argument is abused as a fallacy to justify the unethical behaviour.
I'd say a possible better solution to the problem is teaching smart people the value of ethics before they end up making these decisions.
The problem in your reasoning lies with "Suppose there were a technology X which was going to be invented eventually." This is simply not true. If you look at the size of the world population it is a given nearly every person can use their fist and nearly every person can punch someone else (which we -generally- have laws against).
That is a completely different level than inventing something. You use the example of nuclear scientists. Not the whole world is able to grasp the science behind that. Its the same with programming and hacking. So the amount of people who have to make the conscious decision to build the technology yes/no or any other ethical decision is much smaller than you appear to argue in your premise, and if all refuse your premise is false.
Which means that your argument is abused as a fallacy to justify the unethical behaviour.
I'd say a possible better solution to the problem is teaching smart people the value of ethics before they end up making these decisions.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory