Comment by fooker
2 months ago
> Most people have an intuitive sense to ask themselves questions like "If I do this, will someone be harmed
How much time do you spend asking yourself whether your paycheck is coming from a source that causes harm? Or whether the code you have written will be used directly or indirectly to cause harm? Pretty much everyone in tech is responsible for great harm by this logic.
I actually think about it a lot:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42540862#42542151
Great, would you be surprised that most of us don't?
Most will just take the 500k paycheck and work at whatever the next big tech thing is.
There's some chance that thing is autonomous drones or something like that...
That's definitely a factor at least some people consider when choosing their job.
> Pretty much everyone in tech is responsible for great harm by this logic.
We're also responsible for great good. The question which is greater is tricky, case-by-case and subjective.