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janalsncmyesterday at 11:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Can someone explain if this software is ethical?

Probably not. People have been coming up with ethical frameworks for thousands of years and we have yet to come to a consensus.

So it’s very unlikely that someone can say conclusively whether this is ethical or not, because that would require us to either 1) prove a single ethical framework is correct and then apply that framework to this software or 2) prove that under all possible ethical frameworks this software is either ethical or not ethical.


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_defyesterday at 11:51 PM

Genuinely curious, is there like a simple list of competing ethical frameworks?

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viccistoday at 12:17 AM

Honestly pretty funny that you gave a (fairly useless) metaethical answer instead of responding to the actual meaning, which was clearly soliciting ethical judgments about it.