<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 4:42 PM Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 3:31 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br>
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> 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.<br>
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The military is a government institution where people are *required*<br>
to disobey certain orders. But you are correct.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The military is one example I was thinking of. Judges are another.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Perhaps the AI business makes this the time to pass laws protecting<br>
programmers who are ordered to do unethical work.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Something akin to whistleblower protection laws? Perhaps, but those don't seem to work so well in practice, do they? </div></div></div>