translation: "remove the power to define ethics from self, parents, friends, and religious leaders, and give it to academics" https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/1067497431057743875 …
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Replying to @el33th4xor
It seems to be a corollary to your point, no? We listen to CS profs on data structures and compilers because (a) there is one right answer, (b) our intuitions are wrong / stupid, (c) the profs know better than we do. None of these are proven to be true re ethics.
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Replying to @MorlockP
There are many topics where (a) there is no one right answer (b) our intuitions aren't wrong or stupid but may be uninformed and the issues non-obvious, (c) the profs know no better than anyone else, but they are capable of facilitating a discussion.
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Replying to @el33th4xor
Your position has switched in two tweets from "ethics must be TAUGHT" to "professors can facilitate a discussion". Former is objectionable bc it proposes that CS profs have better/correct ethics. Latter is objectionable bc it proposes (w/o proof) that a discussion is useful.
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Replying to @MorlockP
You have some deep-seated issues with a distrust of academics that blind you to what is actually being said, so you're making up some random crap.
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Replying to @el33th4xor
Indeed, I do. When I was an undergraduate at Cornell I had some brilliant (in the realm of CS) professors try to hector their ill-conceived ethical frameworks at me, and because of Dunning Krueger, they didn't even realize how incoherent their stances were.
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"By the way, those other sources of ethics education that you exalt are, evidently, not very effective," Do you have any evidence that CS professors teaching ethics will be any more effective? If so, cites, please.
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