Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?

Re:Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This ... by sigstoat on Monday October 08, 2018 @06:38PM (#18171927)

> It's true that ultimately there aren't a whole lot of morally "good" things you can do with your compsci degree at the moment.

uhhh. your bubble is astonishing. or your standards for "good" are unattainable by anyone.

how about folks who work on CAD software? is that bad because it will be used to design plastic trinkets, or good because it'll design medical prosthetics?

(are the medical prosthetics good because they help people, or bad because they make someone money?)

if i write the software for a piece of test equipment for batteries, is that good because now people who buy consumer electronics are less likely to catch on fire? or bad because i helped the big company sell more plastic trinkets?

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Re:Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This ... by untilHellbanned on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:26PM (#18172180)

Not a generous interpretation of their argument. I’m in biomedical research which also wasn’t mentioned explicitly but I read it as a more general argument about finding something that is future-looking and helpful to many vs a few.

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