Because most people in tech never took a philosophy course or an ethics course and think that tech is obviously a good for the world and that there are no downsides to advancing tech. So any efforts that try to apply ethics to it are overreaching, ignorant, and futile in the face of the good that is tech!

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borski an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Not any efforts.

But this one is certainly allowed to be a dumb effort, if it is.

Not all things that are called “ethical” or “safety” are worth doing.

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vzcx 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or... they just disagree with Anthropic's ethical stances and approach to applying them?

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enraged_camel 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I like this take. Especially because one of the sibling comments framed Anthropic's stance as "paternalism." Trying to be ethical and to minimize harm, even at great expense to one's finances and reputation, is paternalistic apparently.

	▲	zmgsabst an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No — we’ve just taken Ethics 102 as well, so we understand good intentions don’t entail positive outcomes, therefore you may need to criticize or oppose people who state good intentions to bring about good outcomes. Insulting and demeaning people for that, rather than engaging their arguments in good faith, is a breach of ethics.