[ExI] [Extropolis] New project for EFF (maybe)

[Keith Henson]

"but those don't seem to work so well in practice, do they? "

That's the case.

I am thinking that in practice this would seldom surface.  Perhaps it
should be backed up by punishment for programmers.  An employer can't
ask an employee to do illegal acts.  Needs though.

Keith

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 4:45 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 4:42 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 3:31 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
>> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am not aware of any industry, save certain government institutions where ethics (or lack thereof) demonstrably impacts performance, where there is both a large labor force and enough workers who care about ethics to meaningfully enforce ethics.
>>
>> The military is a government institution where people are *required*
>> to disobey certain orders.  But you are correct.
>
>
> The military is one example I was thinking of.  Judges are another.
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>>
>> Perhaps the AI business makes this the time to pass laws protecting
>> programmers who are ordered to do unethical work.
>
>
> Something akin to whistleblower protection laws?  Perhaps, but those don't seem to work so well in practice, do they?
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