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by 2close4comfort
2870 days ago
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Not when the market has no moral compass with which to guide. Democracy is controlled by the market, and when you teach a computer to learn to pick the cars out of a picture so you can "prove you are not a bot" watch Real Genius you do have a moral obligation to what you take part in creating. If you say my piece is small and I can't stop them from making a facial recognition system/plate reader/password cracker then you are putting your financial gain above what your work does to others. You are part of the problem. |
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This is the problem, because you know what else is controlled by the market? Your employment. I fully encourage going on strike if asked to make surveillance tech, but you will be fired for it. Then some other firm will be hired, and, oh well.
If "the market" controls democracy, to the extent that the "democratic" government demands surveillance tech because someone on the market wants to sell it, that's the problem to be solved, not a shortage of research scientists martyring their careers for no effective gain against the larger social pathologies.