mhoye  

An important point here: far more people are harmed by software that is built correctly and functioning as intended than they are by any number of bugs. Excellent work in service of awful goals is a much harder ethical question to even notice is in play than software errors in high-stakes situations.

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brennen  

@mhoye the ethical lesson that software as a field is least capable of learning is simply that software is mostly a form of harm.

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@brennen @mhoye I'd temper that with "software has become mostly a form of harm."

There were times before the field fell so far into the corruption cycle. They were unfortunately brief, but enjoyable. Now incentives are misaligned to the point where active harm is not only tolerated but encouraged.

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brennen  

@keverets if those times ever existed, i'd argue they were well before my lifetime, and probably before the advent of mainstreamed "personal computing" as such.

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