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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers
on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:57AM (#24107420)
I think people assume the Hippocratic oath actually makes a difference. It's culturally important to many doctors of course, but how often has that hindered the military or the CIA from hiring enough doctors to facilitate a new interrogation program? Of the illegal human experiments that happened in the US many had doctors working for them as well. It's a good guiding principle but the idea that it would actually make an impact of any kind is debateable. It doesn't matter if 90% of coders follow the oath if 10% or even 5% are enough to handle the demand for oath breaking.
Re:Cops Tap Smart Streetlights Sparking Controversy and Legislation
on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:45AM (#24107343)
The reasonableness isn't the issue. San Diego has a few groups criticizing these cameras and if you read between the lines and look at what neighborhoods and communities they're advocating for it's obvious that the real concern is that the system will work and catch criminals in high crime neighborhoods.
Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:30AM (#24107251)
Sometimes that social mob burns your business down and then calls you short-sighted or racist for not being supportive anymore. There's a difference sure but it's not quite as night and day as fired vs. dead.
Re:Stopping deepfake news with an AI algorithm that can tell when a fa...
on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:28AM (#24107234)
This would be more concerning if the public was actually well informed currently. At present, most media companies have wildly lowered their content standards, normalized clickbait titles that sometimes outright lie, all the while ramping up "it's an op-ed so it's not a lie it's just an opinion!" pieces. At the same time we've never been more interested in what government agencies have to say including what they have to say about the government itself. This world of a semi-informed populace doesn't exist, the public is already choosing information from sources that appeal to their emotions rather than logic. What person on the street actually has a nuanced understanding of an industry they're not participating in? How many have any real idea what government contractor work actually looks like in those same industries or understands what the warzones their government operates in are actually like? Most don't even understand other cultures that vaguely resemble their own, just look at how few westerners have the vaguest understanding of sex culture across asia. The only thing people know anymore is memes and rhetorical factoids. You can't poison a toxic well.
Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:11AM (#24107123)
This is a very rosy presentation of westerners that I'd go so far as to say is a lie that western people tell themselves. Where is the protection for critics of progressivism when they lose their jobs in the US for example? Where is the outcry when Europeans advocating collecting racial information during crimes get blanketly labeled racist for something that's standard practice across the world? The west has rapidly been devolving into authoritarianism as well, it's simply social authoritarianism rather than government authoritarianism.