While I would probably not work at Google for ethical reasons, there’s at least some leeway for saying that you’re not working at the Parts of the company that are doing evil directly. He didn’t work on their ads or genai.

I think the United States is a force for evil on net but I still live and pay taxes here.

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dilyevsky 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hilarious that you think his work is not being used for ads or genai. I can without a shadow of doubt tell you that it is and a lot. Googles footprint was absolutely massive even before genai came along and that was point of pride for many, now they’re suddenly concerned with water or whatever bs…

> I think the United States is a force for evil on net

Yes I could tell that already

	▲	spencerflem 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Darn, I actually think “is associating with googlers a moral failing?” is an interesting question, but it’s not one I want to get into with an ai booster.

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Gud 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sorry but if you work for a giant advertisement agency you are part of the evil organisation. You are responsible for what they are doing.

If you are born in a country and not directly contributing to the bad things it may be doing, you are blame free.

Big difference.

I never worked for Google, I never could due to ideological reasons.

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spencerflem an hour ago | parent [-]

Even if what you’re doing is making open source software that in theory benefits everyone, not just google?

FWIW I agree with you. I wouldn’t and couldn’t either but I have friends who do, on stuff like security, and I still haven’t worked out how to feel about it.

& re: countries: in some sense I am contributing. my taxes pay their armies

	▲	Gud 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		When you work for Google, you normalize working for organizations that directly contributes to making the world a fucked up place, even if you are just writing some open source(a corporate term, by the way). You are normalizing working for Google. And regarding countries, this is a silly argument. You are forced to pay taxes to the nation you are living in.