yes. the confusion of epistemic & deontic modalities almost always leads to disaster. sometimes for science, sometimes for politics, usually for both.
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a hierarchical data structure, e.g., just *isn't* a political hierarchy. these are completely different levels of abstraction. insisting that abstractions are obliged to drag this or that stupid mundane muck around w them hamstrings abstraction
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this way lies lysenko
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you can *apply* ideas from mathematics, cs, etc. to politics, etc., even metaphorically. but the freedom to do that is grounded in the independence that formal thinking has from those particulars.
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so the really pernicious part of the OP's argument is that ethics needs to be "integrated" into computer science. it absolutely doesn't.
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and it gets a bit subtle for a precaffeinated twitter rant, but there's even an ethical argument for not burdening mathematics with ethics. mathematics *ought* to be free from oughts. "the essence of mathematics is its freedom."
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this looks like an application of ethics to mathematics, or even an "integration" of E in M, but it's not. it's at the meta level, and doesn't say anything about the objects of math or CS.
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which sort of brings us back where we started: what the OP does is collapse abstractions and cause confusions
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I'd say that the demand -- not that CS workers consider ethics, not even that CS programs consider ethics, but that the most elementary ideas in CS should be made to center politics from the beginning -- is both totalitarian and dreadfully boring.
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Also evidence from prior states that tried this indoctrination (soviet union) & vaguely similar social engineering attempts in "ze west" (sensitivity training, which has proven ineffective and possibly exacerbative) suggests that it would achieve nothing like the "desired" result
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Yeah, this goes to Huemer's "Washington's Doctors" argument. Even if it were a good idea to do this (it isn't), no one has any idea how to accomplish it.
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