The thing is, if you're smart enough to work at Google, you're smart enough to rationalize why it's ok for you to stay there despite the company's behavior. It's the ethical analogue to every programmer being able to write a cryptosystem they can't break. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1128111568628211743 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
This is the classic mistake of assuming a problem you haven't personally worked on is obviously easy, and therefore the only reason it isn't solved are nefarious motives. These problems are hard, socially, politically, technically.
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Then maybe you can hypothesize some other reason this isn't solved other than an ethical failing?
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What is the "this" you're referring to? YouTube promoting radicalizing content? Something else?
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I think the delta between how quickly YouTube handles copyright claims compared to hate speech is pretty revealing. I also consider the fact the company makes political donations to white supremacists a clue that ethics is not a front-burner issue
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Copyright claims can and have been automated, as I'm sure you're well aware. There's a relatively clear legal standard to enforce, and the problem is comparatively simple.
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Sure. That is why I tend to focus on "your company makes political donations to white supremacists," since that's harder to rationalize as a thorny technical problem. But the best rationalizers on the planet work for Google.
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