Re:Google AI leader has defected to Apple
by ALittleLight on Monday May 03, 2021 @08:53PM
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I would say that your moral obligation is to speak well of Microsoft when you speak of them - as they treated you well it would be wrong for you to disparage them. You don't have any obligation to work for Microsoft longer than you want to though.
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I would consider it a standard of politeness... but is that a moral obligation? What if you were treated very well but quit because you didn't like some of their... secure datacenters?
Given that sort of a conflict can occur, exactly where does this moral obligation stem from?
Maybe to go one step deeper, the moral obligation is to speak honestly and fairly to the extent that one is able, and as their honest impression was positive, then the moral obligation to speak (honestly) positively follows from that.
Re:Google AI leader has defected to Apple
by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:38AM
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Oh, of course - I don't mean that I believe Microsoft can do no-wrong: on the contrary, it (hyperbole warning) breaks my heart whenever I see Microsoft do something I feel is morally wrong or otherwise disappointing. Like seeing a loved-one go-off-the-rails, I suppose.
>as they treated you well it would be wrong for you to disparage them
that's somewhere between loyalty and patronage. A moral obligation is to speak the truth, regardless if someone treated you well or not.