I once had a chemistry professor who used to work as a senior drug researcher at a major pharmaceutical company. He often joked about how the company treated the monkeys used for testing far better than the PhDs. If a monkey suffered a negative reaction there was a major investigation. I’m incredibly surprised Musk can be killing monkeys left and right and hasn’t been thrown in jail.
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You mean someone went onto the internet just to tell lies? on purpose?!
The difference is that guy was working at a major pharmaceutical research firm with animal advocates and whistle-blowers and accrediting board all over them. Musk’s group is new and is still in the fucking around phase. As soon as they have to answer to any outside org, suddenly this will be a huge liability.
We’re still in the ‘move fast, kill monkeys’ phase.
So agile. Much lean.
He could probably shoot somebody dead in Times Square and nothing would happen to him…
But could he grab them by the… nevermind, if he can buy a horse, he can do anything.
I still think we should try it on musk himself. Those monkeys just didnt have moxie
Considering his recent behavior, I think he already tried it
Who could be controlling the chip?
A monkey of course
It’s cute you believe that he is actually delivering a product that works.
He is just torturing animals for his own delusions.
The other 8 died, too. In excruciating pain. One of them vomited to death. These people are barbaric and should face animal cruelty charges.
Source?
You’re looking at a tweet from well over a year ago. They’ve killed well over 1500 animals at this point, and I think you might want to look up “neuralink” on literally any news site.
And I’ve also seen that they just had to put them down because that’s a requirement when they cannot prove if the animals might be suffering, which is hard to do with brain implants.
Same kind of source.
I thought they were still experimenting on pigs. God damn.
You are confusing taking a class with actually having ethics. No amount of attending a lecture about ethics will convince you if you do not, as a basic premise agree with the ethical principle that loss of life is a bad thing. And to be very clear, ethical principles are subjective. There is no objectively right or wrong thing as far nature is concerned.
Ethics class gives you tools to analyze a problem. Any good class is part of the philosophy department and leans on the classic philosphers approaches to analyze the problem. Many engineers would have no exposure to this otherwise and i think its a good part of any Universities’ engineering curriculum.
Classes don’t solve the problem entirely, but they’re a start and without them in this case a company so large and powerful that it has a space program and foreign policy planks is being guided by nothing but the intuition of someone who grew up spending money earned by child slaves and who thinks that scuttling an army’s mission in-progress is pacifism
Funny story, the only ethics required in my engineering degree was a 2-day unit on our professional code of ethics. We had a 20-question true/false homework on it, and the thing about a professional code of ethics is it’s not super intuitive. Most of the class thought they could gut feel their way through it, but you actually had to read the code because the wording was very specific sometimes. When it turned out that everyone failed the homework, the professor let us try again.
Ethics!
Business/economics and politics students also need classes in ethics.
Yes, but they cant win capitalism if they apply those lessons though.
Eveyone needs it. Aristotle starts out his Nicomachean ethics stating that virtuous acts are first and foremost for the benefit of the virtuous person.
Platonic ethics should also really be taught widely, even more so than Aristotle’s because they’re easier to receive. Even if he has some hard to accept views such as that commiting injustice is worse than suffering it, everyone would benefit if children grew up with the notion that everyone does what they think best, and that those who do “wrong” things do so out of ignorance of what is good, rather than what we currently have where everyone knows what is objectively good, and those who don’t do it are willfully wrongdoers and you just need to punish them enough and they’ll become good.
Although you can have the best educational plans in the galaxy if the educarional system is crap. I don’t know about the rest of the world, but where I’m from all education from primary school to a master’s degree is just a bunch of information being thrown at you with 0 context and reasoning behind it, and when you’re able to reproduce that information on demand (without any context): congratz, you’re educated!
Should start in kindy, tbh.
No amount of ethics teaching will change the behaviour of a narcisistic psychopath like musk.
Wow! Been a while since I’ve seen a Michael Crichton quote. I think I’ll have to do a reread of Jurassic Park now.
RIP to the monkeys. They deserved better.
Please explain how this is a meme.
No one knows what a meme is anymore. And idk if mods care.
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Not…really. I mean, I hate Elon too but that doesn’t make it a meme by itself. It’s how it is presented, and this ain’t it, friend.
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Oh.
I apologize. I didn’t realize.
Down vote and move on. That’s how this works.
Well my instance doesn’t allow downvotes, so… shrug
I had to take 3 ethics classes for my cybersecurity degree
At least you get to take an ethics class. Mine was just about patents and Therac-25
I mean, we really don’t want a repeat of the Therac-25
Still can’t believe it happened the first time.
“Oh let’s just reuse the code and forget the hardware breakers on the machine it’ll be fine.”
Like I have no ethics training but they even had a (human operated) control rod in the first chicago pile who trusts a radiation gun to a SOFTWARE toggle?
It wasn’t collectively known that software was hard to do right at that time. If it always performed as intended it would have made for a less expensive and perfectly safe machine. It’s the textbook case in doing software wrong because there wasn’t one that happened before it.
I only learned about it from the “Well There’s Your Problem” podcast. Can’t believe my school never talked about it. We did hear all about Challenger though as well as a few other disasters where the lesson was “If you cut corners, or take chances, people can DIE”
This startrek.website site loads like 15% of the time for me. It’s really annoying.
It’s been a bit laggy and inconsistent since the instance switched hosts last week. I wonder if that’s still it…
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I personally enjoy ethics as a subject, but has it been shown that studying ethics in uni actually leads to people behaving more ethically? I agree that ethics should be applied to science, but science should also be applied to ethics to determine the effective approach.
I used to think like that but looking back those classes were pretty fun
