[rcpt]

Nuts that the whole company is in on it. Missing such a huge story is something that rank and file engineers would notice. But nobody is saying anything.

Perhaps on the tiktok Blind?

[intermerda]

The Blind community is one of the most toxic communities out there. It made me sick even before the tech industry had its mask off moment 1+ year ago. Since then they’ve only amped up the racism and hate. I wouldn’t expect to find any serious discussion there.

[rcpt]

Blind is fine. It's close to the forums of the ancient Internet.

If there was some "mask off" moment I don't know what it was, and I've been in this industry for a while. Perhaps you're just projecting out from Elon? It's a popular thing to do nowadays.

[megolodan]

I used to think that most engineers had strong ethics, but It seems thats not the case.

I wonder if it is widespread knowledge internally or if just the select few know.

[pickleRick243]

Why would you think that engineers have stronger ethics than the population at large? Following this logically, some profession would have to have lower than average ethics or perhaps only the unemployed do?

I don't think that one's personal moral compass and one's profession have much correlation at all. Otherwise, moral philosophy professors would be near saints. Moreover the moral philosophers at Harvard would be more ethical than those at Ohio State.

[spacechild1]

> I used to think that most engineers had strong ethics

Civil engineers maybe. Software "engineers" were never known for their strong sense of ethics.

[philipwhiuk]

You need remarkably few engineers in the loop to actually pull a thing like this off (if it is/was true).

[rcpt]

Implement the filter? Yeah that's like one guy. But then all the internal dashboards and experiments have this big obvious miss that everyone sees