> You don't know the long term effects of random social media posts either. Right, hence the whole rest of my message concerning intent, consent, and their importance with regards to morality and ethics. > Was that also…
Still, there's no oversight for either type of experiment (Facebook's or the color change). Where the border gets drawn between ethical and unethical is murky even WITH oversight, let alone without it.
Because you don't really know what the longterm effect on the subjects is going to be, especially w.r.t behavioral studies. The human psyche is still in many ways very much a black box, and there are plenty of…
> For most engineers, including a number of very good and ethical people at Facebook, it’s surprising that this is even an issue. Wow. That really hit home. I work for a large enough company that's constantly running…
White hat security has got to be one of the most important but thankless fields in computer science today. At best, there are bug bounties that may or may not be worth it depending on the severity of what you find and…
In retrospect though, I think it's more surprising that it wasn't thought of as a children's game to begin with, and I say that as someone who played it off and on in alpha. It's not hard to draw the analogy that…
Eh. I dunno. When you get in that deep it kinda feels like it's an inevitability, one way or the other. I hate doing it because it's almost cliche at this point, but Avon Barksdale has a pretty good point: "Comin up the…
> As far as I'm concerned, Adria Richards did pretty much zero wrong. That's silly. The article posted by Amanda Blum above lists at least a couple different ways that Adria Richards could have handled the situation…
> A plain HTML site is accessible, and will be accessible in a 1000 years. A site depending on (external) JavaScript sources will force John Titor to travel back in time to find version 1.x of jQuery. Not to sound…
> You don't know the long term effects of random social media posts either. Right, hence the whole rest of my message concerning intent, consent, and their importance with regards to morality and ethics. > Was that also…
Still, there's no oversight for either type of experiment (Facebook's or the color change). Where the border gets drawn between ethical and unethical is murky even WITH oversight, let alone without it.
Because you don't really know what the longterm effect on the subjects is going to be, especially w.r.t behavioral studies. The human psyche is still in many ways very much a black box, and there are plenty of…
> For most engineers, including a number of very good and ethical people at Facebook, it’s surprising that this is even an issue. Wow. That really hit home. I work for a large enough company that's constantly running…
White hat security has got to be one of the most important but thankless fields in computer science today. At best, there are bug bounties that may or may not be worth it depending on the severity of what you find and…
In retrospect though, I think it's more surprising that it wasn't thought of as a children's game to begin with, and I say that as someone who played it off and on in alpha. It's not hard to draw the analogy that…
Eh. I dunno. When you get in that deep it kinda feels like it's an inevitability, one way or the other. I hate doing it because it's almost cliche at this point, but Avon Barksdale has a pretty good point: "Comin up the…
> As far as I'm concerned, Adria Richards did pretty much zero wrong. That's silly. The article posted by Amanda Blum above lists at least a couple different ways that Adria Richards could have handled the situation…
> A plain HTML site is accessible, and will be accessible in a 1000 years. A site depending on (external) JavaScript sources will force John Titor to travel back in time to find version 1.x of jQuery. Not to sound…