Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns

Post by droidist2 » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 7:42 PM UTC

luckydude wrote: post #124

alasdair_ wrote: post #117

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>While skilled, I doubt than more than a small fraction of FB work force is close to Feynman's IQ. Feynman is semi-famous for testing at a much lower IQ than most people assume. (He scored 125 on his test at school). See: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-the-next-ein...

Unless I'm mistaken, I tested out at 140 a long time ago. There is no friggin way I'm remotely as intelligent as Feynman was so there goes any faith in IQ tests being meaningful. Most of the people who have worked for me are demonstrably smarter than me and none of them are close to Feynman. Smart people but not at his level IMO. RIP IQ tests :)

Post by dsacco » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 7:42 PM UTC

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #89

eric_b wrote: post #33

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That's great that you've got a set of principles that you live by, and are able to stick to them. However, your principles are not everyone's principles, and what you consider moral and ethical is not universal. Grellas had a great comment on working for the military industrial complex a few days ago, that I think is worth a read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16759324

Lots of words in the linked comment, but it still amounts to making machines that mechanise the process of killing people.

Post by smelterdemon » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 7:45 PM UTC

lainga wrote: post #115

tajen wrote: post #103

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> Anti-vaxers, pizzagaters, people who don't watch anough TV. Let’s be honest: What we’re after is Trump voters, Alex Jones/Milo fans, supporters of James Damore, non-feminists, non-supporters of Emmy Awards stances and generally all people who don’t laugh enough at Steven Colbert jokes. It was made very clear, for example at Google, that managers are building blacklists, and that HR supports them.

Trump voters The other groups maybe , but I doubt even Stalin thought the Great Purges would have gone better if he purged 49% of the Soviet Union's population.

Post by dsacco » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 7:48 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #107

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So the fact that Galkovskiy, the engineer who perfected the Katyusha rocket launcher, decided to work on a weapon that played a major role in defeating Nazi Germany offends you?

Your argument is not on great footing if you have to reach 70 years back to WW2 in order to find an ethical example of working for the War Industry.

Post by freshhawk » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 7:51 PM UTC

leggomylibro wrote: post #7

This is sort of surprising information, from my view. The information about their business model and data practices which people seem to be so surprised by was/is common knowledge among people who work with these technology stacks. Going to work for Facebook seemed like it would have meant supporting and abetting those practices; they were very clear about what they were doing, and the roles were in no way ambiguous.…