The Julia community is amazing and I feel that many people here aim at solving problems in the best possible way. I was wondering if there is a group of people who think/care about (business) ethical questions in the Julia universe and its packages? Do we have people in our community who are exper…

[image] SteffenPL: a TED talk which claims that Julia is “A programming language to heal the planet together”, I think it is reasonable to challenge this claim. Probably this is based on this context What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view. ( Bret Victor / November …

I think that there are (legal/non-cultist) possibilities for small improvements, despite the limited power of licenses and the impossible challenge to predict the future. Just some imaginary examples: (These are not intended as suggestions…) The package maintainers are maybe happy for input about…

[image] chakravala: When releasing free software, it’s generally up to the license used to determine by who and how the code can be used. Misuse of software is legally well defined in terms of the software license used I think this is an orthogonal point. Speaking about which licenses to use …

IMO, the topic of ethics is only relevant to cultivating a vibrant and healthy community for support, development, and guidance of the Julia language. E.g., if the stewards of the language are seen as making decisions with regard to contributions in a non-principled/non-ethical way, that may discou…

While it is also not my domain, I do care about this topic. I think one should distinguish between issues regarding the language only (e.g. current discussion around changing potentially offensive language in the Linux kernel and other projects) and those of surrounding communities and larger enviro…

@kevbonham Your post gives a good structure to the different points! Thanks.

[image] SteffenPL: it could be helpful to investigate how and by whom these packages are used. I am not sure about how any of this could be helpful, or even possible. Generally, such an investigation is feasible only for public use cases — if someone is doing something truly nefarious, presu…

So I think in general the idea is, if you make it, and open source it, its just that… A weapons company could come by use your code/idea/algorithm and go profit from killing thousands of innocent civilians in a war-torn country just in the same way an undergrad working on their capstone projects cou…

[image] anon92994695: A weapons company could come by use your code/idea/algorithm and go profit from killing thousands of innocent civilians in a war-torn country just in the same way an undergrad working on their capstone projects could use it to do something innovative and get into a nice sch…

Why don’t we just make a machine learning model that will give an answer to ethical questions?

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