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by frenchy
1971 days ago
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> In defense of the d.school, what they teach are techniques and tools - not ethics. Is that a defence? That sounds like trying to explain your friend's rudeness away by saying "In Bob's defence, he's an asshole". I guess this is partly a philisophical question about whether the job of schools is to raise effective citizens, or effective market manipulators. |
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I think it would be correct to say that receiving an education should teach you about ethics. Whether that should be strategic from the top down (you take specific classes about ethics) or embedded in each class is a question I don’t know the answer to.
In an individual class the amount of ethics varies. When I took d.school classes there certainly wasn’t a “market mover” mentality. We were genuinely interested in understanding people better so we could improve lives. But ethics certainly wasn’t explicitly on the agenda. We just didn’t have any assholes taking the course at that time.
This is part of the argument within the university for loosening credit requirements. When I was there, I took the HCI track. That track had the smallest credit requirement and also let you take a broader base of classes that counted towards the major, such as philosophy. That was a more rounded experience than some of my peers who took harder cs tracks like networking and systems.