There are some kinds of expertise that are defined more by the risks you take than by the skills with which you tackle those risks.
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Subtweet inspired by the growing cottage industries of "ethicists" of various kinds. AI ethicists, design ethicists, blah blah blah. The diff between grifty posturing in service of ethics theaters, and actual risk-taking is pretty stark.
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Most applied ethics requires putting yourself in inherently problematic positions then mitigating the consequences of that. The average theoretical ethicist will just not go to dark places.
