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| author | Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> | 2015-12-09 20:40:42 -0500 |
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| committer | Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> | 2015-12-09 20:40:42 -0500 |
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diff --git a/.html/ethics/musings.html b/.html/ethics/musings.html deleted file mode 100644 index 4090d46..0000000 --- a/.html/ethics/musings.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,146 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html> -<head> - <title> - The Codex » - Undirected Musings about Ethics - </title> - - <link - rel='stylesheet' - type='text/css' - href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Buenard:400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext'> - <link - rel="stylesheet" - type="text/css" - href="../media/css/reset.css"> - <link - rel="stylesheet" - type="text/css" - href="../media/css/grimoire.css"> -</head> -<body> - -<div id="shell"> - - <ol id="breadcrumbs"> - - <li class="crumb-0 not-last"> - - <a href="../">index</a> - - </li> - - <li class="crumb-1 not-last"> - - <a href="./">ethics</a> - - </li> - - <li class="crumb-2 last"> - - musings - - </li> - - </ol> - - - - <div id="article"> - <h1 id="undirected-musings-about-ethics">Undirected Musings about Ethics</h1> -<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> -<ul> -<li><a href="http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-fantasy-and-abuse-of-the-manipulable-user">The Fantasy and Abuse of the Manipulable User</a></li> -<li><a href="https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2005/11/ethics-for-programmers-primum-non.html">Ethics for Programmers: Primum non Nocere</a></li> -<li><a href="http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm">The Internet with a Human Face</a></li> -<li><a href="http://www.diffen.com/difference/Ethics_vs_Morals">Ethics vs Morals</a></li> -<li><a href="http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com">Yes means Yes</a></li> -</ul> -<h2 id="why-bother">Why bother?</h2> -<p>Everyone <em>thinks</em> they're doing good most of the time. Ethical codes help -guide that sense into alignment with the surrounding social and political -context: doing good for whom, why, and with what kinds of caveats.</p> -<h2 id="its-not-about-engineering-its-about-people">It's not about engineering, it's about people</h2> -<p>An ethical code for software development should not waste too much space -talking about <em>engineering practices</em>. Certainly there is value in getting -more developers and systems people to follow good engineering practice, but -an ethical code should focus on the interaction between trustworthiness, the -greater good, the personal good of <em>all</em> the participants in the system, and -software itself.</p> -<p>(This comes up in Ethics for Programmers, above.)</p> -<p>It's no good to build a wonderfully-engineered system that is cheap to run -and easy to integrate with if it systematically disenfranchises and abuses -its users for the benefit of its owners, and that's a problem we actually -have via Facebook, Github, Twitter, and numerous others.</p> -<h2 id="ethical-codes-are-fundamentally-extrinsic">Ethical codes are fundamentally extrinsic</h2> -<p>Ethical codes exist so that others can judge our behaviour, not so that we -can judge our own behaviour.</p> -<h2 id="ethical-codes-must-be-constraining">Ethical codes must be constraining</h2> -<p>Ethical codes do not exist in a vacuum. A code that authorizes its adherents -to behave in any way they see fit, subject only to their own judgement, is no -ethical code at all. We already have that and the results have not been great.</p> -<p><em>This is important</em> - a meaningful ethical code for software would probably -cripple most software business models. An ethical code that prioritizes -active consent, for example, completely cripples advertising and analytics, -and puts a big roadblock in buyouts like Instagram's. This may well be good -for society.</p> -<h2 id="integrity-is-not-about-contracts-or-legislation">Integrity is not about contracts or legislation</h2> -<p>Ethics, personal integrity, and group integrity are tangled together, but -modern Western conceptions of group integrity tend to revolve around “does -this group break the law or engender lawsuits,” not “does this group act in -the best interests of people outside of it.”</p> -<h2 id="assumptions">Assumptions</h2> -<p>I've embedded some of my personal morality into the “ethics” articles in this -section, in the absence of a published moral code. Those, obviously, aren't -absolute, but you can reason about their validity if you assume that I -believe the “end user's” privacy and active consent take priority over the -technical cleverness or business value of a software system.</p> -<h3 id="consent-and-social-software">Consent and social software</h3> -<p>This has some complicated downstream effects: “active consent” means -something you can't handwave away by putting implied consent (for example, to -future changes) in an EULA or privacy statement. I haven't written much that -calls out this pattern because it's <em>pervasive</em>.</p> -<p>The “end user is the real product” business model most social networks -operate on is fundamentally unethical under this code. It will always be more -valuable to the “real customers” (advertisers, analytics platforms, law -enforcement, and intelligence agencies) for users to be opted into new -measurements by default, <em>assuming</em> consent rather than obtaining it.</p> - </div> - - - -<div id="comments"> -<div id="disqus_thread"></div> -<script type="text/javascript"> - /* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */ - var disqus_shortname = 'grimoire'; // required: replace example with your forum shortname - - /* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */ - (function() { - var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true; - dsq.src = 'http://' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js'; - (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq); - })(); -</script> -<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript> -<a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a> -</div> - - - - <div id="footer"> - <p> - - The Codex — - - Powered by <a href="http://markdoc.org/">Markdoc</a>. - -<a href="https://bitbucket.org/ojacobson/grimoire.ca/src/master/wiki/ethics/musings.md">See this page on Bitbucket</a> (<a href="https://bitbucket.org/ojacobson/grimoire.ca/history-node/master/wiki/ethics/musings.md">history</a>). - - </p> - </div> - -</div> -</body> -</html>
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