anyone wanna form a software engineering guild, then lobby to need a license granted by the guild to practice?

Sorry but you’re not gonna get me to agree that medical licensing is a bad idea. I don’t want quacks more than we already do. Stick to the argument and not add in your “what about” software engineers.

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blibble 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I am being serious...

the damage certain software engineers could do certainly surpasses most doctors

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miltonlost 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah sorry, I misread it as coming from someone who doesn't want licensing, so you were appealing to HN by switching to software engineers (and I know many on here loathe to think anything beyond "move fast and break things", which is the opposite of most (non-software) engineers.

But yeah, I'd be down for at least some code of ethics, so we could have "do no harm" instead of "experiment on the mental states of children/adolescents/adults via algorithms and then do whatever is most addictive"

	▲	blibble 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> But yeah, I'd be down for at least some code of ethics, so we could have "do no harm" instead of "experiment on the mental states of children/adolescents/adults via algorithms and then do whatever is most addictive" absolutely if the only way to make people stop building evil (like your example) is to make individuals personally liable, then so be it