| ▲ | JauntyHatAngle 14 hours ago | |||||||
Lets generalise a bit more here - every company at any time could completely heel-turn and do awful things. Even my favourite private companies (e.g. Valve) have done things that I would consider evil. However, I would think I'm not alone in that I'm generally wanting to do good while also wanting convenience, I know that really every bit of consumption I do is probably negative in some ways, and there is no real "apolitical" action anyone can take. But can't I at least get annoyed and take my money somewhere else for the short amount of time another company is doing it better? Yes, if openAI suddenly leaps forwards with codex and pounds anthropic into the dust, I'll likely switch back despite my moral grievances, but in a situation where I can get mildly motivated to jump over for something that - to me - seems like a better morality without much punishment to me, I'll do it. | ||||||||
| ▲ | bluGill 11 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
There are no universial morals. Anything - everything you think is evil some culture (possibly in history) thinks is good). I can't even think of something good that I'm confident everyone would agree is good. there are some people (companies are run by people) that are so bad I boycott them. Most bad I treat like society cannot work without accepting them anyway. | ||||||||
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