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] anon92994695: Someone could easily drop tens of million of dollar ideas into their laps that they aren’t positioned for. Is that a good idea though? Dunno. I guess that deciding this is really up to the person who has the 10e7 dollars to give away. I am happy to give them advice on th…

What I find difficult about the focus on extreme cases (like bombs/screwdrivers): they seemingly imply that ethical science leads to less good science. I don’t think that’s necessarily the case, for example, an ecosystem for data science could benefit from features/tutorials and examples around que…

Yep agreed, these decisions are for the business not the users or customers. I think it’s hard for many people to conceptualize this is a for profit thing. Open source in those territories is trickier. Also, I kind of want a pet monster too! But is it ethical? Just kidding

Again, I stumble over some words here and need to clarify my view: It is not the community (we) and others (e.g. JuliaComputing). It is more that all groups, which somehow have to do with Julia, the language, are overlapping. This overlapping set is the community! To contribute with respect to the …

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 experienced in such matters and who would spot ethical challenges? @SteffenPL Who knows? If this group of people exi…

I don’t really have much to add here, but [image] anon42746597: another example: :put_litter_in_its_place: one of the more popular debuggers in our language community is framed around an ableist joke. made me curious; can you elaborate a bit on that statement? Also, auto correct or somethin…

I think this is almost impossible unless you are also willing to hobble the language or ecosystem for ethical usecases. Julia is already used by pharmaceutical companies and investment banks that are “morally ambiguous” in the eyes of some, though the ways in which they are using so far seem to be …

[image] ninjaaron: pharmaceutical companies and investment banks that are “morally ambiguous” in the eyes of some Also, there are some people who consider the whole of capitalism/market economy “unethical” etc. For pretty much every human endavour you can find a group of people who will have …

[image] Tamas_Papp: There are examples like the Hippocratic License ; I don’t know how these things fare in practice though. I’d also like to point out that licenses like this one aren’t considered FOSS by any definition of “free and open source”.

Yes, that’s an important point. Users and contributors will just have to decide whether such licenses are compatible with their goals and requirements. Licenses like MIT became widespread because they demand very little, allowing a lot of people to cooperate on software. The more a license restricts…

Ethics in Julia

Community

pfitzseb July 20, 2020, 11:18am 60

I don’t really have much to add here, but

made me curious; can you elaborate a bit on that statement?

Also, auto correct or something seems to have changed “JuliaCon” to “julie khan” in your post.

Topic		Replies	Views
How do we Julians win big when the situation is so unfair? Community	98	6311	November 22, 2023
Julia's business model Community question , licenses , legal	102	9561	November 10, 2021
Towards improving community diversity Diversity & Inclusion	72	6069	September 19, 2020
JuliaComputing profit / non-profit tensions? Community	60	4413	October 14, 2020
JuliaLang/julia is AI slop now and I am heartbroken Community	28	1344	March 29, 2026

Ethics in Julia

Related topics