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Agree.

We would have dramatically less surveillance programs, automated enforcement and bombs if there wasn't as many people ready to blindly write the software for them.

We should be thinking hard about what we are building and how it will be [ab]used, especially in government.

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Bit of a jump there, no? The ethics of building crap commercial software is quite a bit different than the ethics of building mass surveillance or munitions software.

No.

"I try to stay much less emotionally attached to the end-result".

This is the mindset that drives most of military, police and totalitarian policy. You don't drop a bomb or violate the constitution without a bit of emotional divestment.

The mindset may be the same. The ethics behind adopting that mindset are very different. No one dies if Tinder crashes because it tried to load too many images at once.

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