Comment by miketery
3 years ago
Ashamed? The opposite, usually they’re proud.
“It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It.”
Also see current AI doom debates. See Yann LeCun tweets. He has some the silliest metaphors, like comparing AI development to aviation development. As if the two are similar in order of magnitude of downside risk.
Salary and income are one of the most powerful decision making and ethics shaping factors. The flow of money literally defines everything for 95% of people, including their ideological and political preferences.
Sad but true.
When was the last time you took a political stance that cost you your income (ie. flow of money)? For the majority of people, money is a fair proxy for quality-of-life; it makes sense that it permeates their ideology and politics.
Money is the indicator to us that what we're doing is valuable to someone else. That seems useful.
The auto complete black box is just soooo dangerous haha you better regulate all the risky other ones, mine's cool though d/w chief
> “It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It.”
see also: cloud