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by insamniac 998 days ago
What are the most morally acceptable industries on offer that we should use our skills for instead?
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Mass data collection, recommender systems, social networks and AI models built on "fair use" of everyone's hard work of course.

They're all such noble pursuits, so much better than defense! Just look at how much they've done for the world.

It's never not funny when people in our industry, especially those working at giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, whine against defense projects claiming to want to do good for the world while being responsible for so much harm. Shows that they're more than happy causing any amount of suffering as long as they don't have to see it themselves in the form of dead bodies and ruined cities.

Anything that doesn’t involve killing humans and destroying the environment?
I was hoping for a few specific examples. You might be able to find something with more abstractions between yourself and the killing and destruction, but if there are any 'pure' industries out there, there certainly won't be enough jobs for all of us.