"Finally, surveillance capitalism makes it harder to organize effective
long-term dissent. In an setting where attention is convertible into
money, social media will always reward drama, dissent, conflict,
iconoclasm and strife. There will be no comparable rewards for
cooperation, de-escalation, consensus-building, or compromise, qualities
that are essential for the slow work of building a movement. People
who should be looking past their differences will instead spend their
time on purity tests and trying to outflank one another in a race to the
fringes."
From Maciej Cegłowski's Build a Better Monster.
From Maciej Cegłowski's Build a Better Monster.
'We need a code of ethics for our industry, to guide our use of machine
learning, and its acceptable use on human beings. Other professions all
have a code of ethics. Librarians are taught to hold patron privacy,
doctors pledge to “first, do no harm”. Lawyers, for all the bad jokes
about them, are officers of the court and hold themselves to high
ethical standards.'