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by SoSoRoCoCo 2010 days ago
> I suspect having "Sat on Google Committee" is a pretty nice résumé item

Absolutely. I'd take it. I'd probably try to undermine the effort, but I'd still take the position!

I think the era of subversive engineering is dawning. We've had wave after wave of high-profile resignations and data leaks in the name of ethics, only to see their position filled with two worse candidates: a hydra of corruption!

How soon until ethical engineers realize protests don't work and start to corrode monopolies from the inside out? (like when Agent K jumps down the throat of The Bug in MiB.) Is that in itself ethical? That's a tough question, we'll know it when we see it?