Student: "My career ambition to be an ethical technologist"
Me: "Why do we need more ethics in tech?"
"Just cause we can do something, doesn't mean we should"
"We already have lots of ethics in tech, why do we need MORE?"
<awkward silence>
A technologist should understand the concept of tradeoffs, where just because X is a good thing doesn't mean you should spend all of your budget on getting more X. There are also other good things your budget should be spent on.
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