Many engineers aren't aware that they're building technologies that essentially brainwash us.
Instead they’re thinking, “The large internet company I work for wants to program the content so that users click more. Seems completely reasonable.”
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As an engineer I’ve come to see our field as morally neutral at best (probably worse).
In very many instances, at some level, we’re just selling the rope society will use to hang itself.
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