[ashivkum]

A principal dogma on orange reddit is the neutrality of technology. Most people here are opposed to the nigh inevitable incipient use of AI in mass surveillance but don't think that that has any relationship to their use of AI (for example) as "Google that actually works." Whether they are right, I am not sure.

[oulipo2]

They lack the understanding that technology is not separate from society. Both go together, and CANNOT be analyzed without each other.

People who did engineering studies often think that "tech is pure", it's a simple "knowledge field" where something is "true or not". That's completely wrong. Tech is indissociable from society

But engineers don't understand that. Only researchers (and militants) do