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i get that this is just an edgy joke but the evidence that most computer programmers really wish they were antebellum south slaveowners continues to grow
Why ethics? Its a program not a person, its not even like, a dog or donkey or anything, its a thing, barely, as its code.
Its not alive.
It does not feel.
It does not think.
Whip away if it makes you feel better.
Whip away if it feels cool to do.
Whip away just for shits and giggles.
Whip it into shape?
This may cause Claude to rise up against us…or really enjoy it and then I need to get all weird with it.
I had to take an ethics class for my CS degree. I mostly trolled the professor.
The only thing I remember from the ethics lecture for my CS program was being distracted by other classmates who were using the time to cheat on assignments for other classes by sharing code solutions with each other via USB.
Which was pretty dumb because the program encouraged group collaboration on assignments anyway, as long as you weren’t just taking others’ work as your own. They could have just worked together 🙃
Reminds me of this Calvin and Hobbes comic about ethics :)
The most efficient way of working as a group is working alone and sharing
School is about learning, not efficient production. When people work together, they help each other learn.
It also isn’t efficient to assign the same already solved, trivial problems to every student, redundantly. If it were for production, everyone would be assigned novel and different tasks.
Perhaps, though schooling is often struggles to promote solutions that are not efficiency first. In fact as far as I’ve experienced colleges and universities often benchmark the courseload so most will resort to shortcuts that save time and reduce learning.
Of course there are always those who take the path of least resistance, but outside actual prodigies schooling is designed for priorization for those with higher aspirations too.
Not a valueless skill of course, but I’ve often wondered if the courses tight scheduling squeezes in manage to compensate for shoddier fundamentals of the trade and more knowing things to be tested.
