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How can software engineers make the world a better place?

1 2022-02-17 10:30

Without changing careers?

2 2022-02-17 17:53

Create solutions that reduce the use of computers rather than increase their use. Help users automate the boring stuff and create tools that make going outside and meeting people in real life more appealing than spending time on computers.
Ironically, this might take the form of making the Internet an uninhabitable hellscape for sane, healthy people and a pleasure palace for power-tripping sadists.

3 2022-02-17 18:41

>>2
I'm not sure what you mean, there's interactive outdoors games and nearby friending technology. The Internet is an uninhabitable hellscape for sane, healthy people and a pleasure palace for power-tripping sadists. It's just those sadists must be part of our technology guild and preferably operate an autonomous system.

4 2022-02-17 19:05

one of us! one of us!

5 2022-03-08 05:16

Op is asking if an ant can change the world for the better.
Rhetorical: and what homonid made more extinctions per genus combined in this marble of the 95% spent universe?

6 2022-03-08 12:49

>>5
Are you implying that fewer hominids would result in a better world? Anti-natalism is old hat. Homocidalism is the new trend.

7 2022-03-08 15:02

>>6
Nah, I'm saying the species itself is incapable of doing the very things that can make itself better every opportunity it's given. Have you tried convincing petrol users to just stop?

8 2022-03-08 15:10

>>1
contribute to free software projects.

9 2022-03-08 15:23

>>1

Without changing careers?

This inflexible attitude is why software engineers are not able to make the world a better place. The less software engineers, the better. Write less code, produce less software.

10 2022-03-08 16:45

Donate a fixed percentage to MAPS.

11 2022-03-08 16:48

>>7
That other people have different value structures does not mean the species is doomed. Most people are cognitively lazy. They think with their pocketbooks and social identities, short term. Alternative transportation technologies don't provide the convenience or social invisibility that petrol does.
This war in Ukraine (and attending petrol price increases) will do more for bikes and bike infrastructure than all the advocacy that environmentalists have put forward.
If you want to solve overpopulation, fossil fuels, and technology (the predicates of all the biocide), create more wars. If you want to solve
environmental unraveling and simplification, create more wars. If you want evolutionary pressure towards more a more peaceful species, create more wars.
The empire long united, must divide. Long divided, must unite. Thus has it ever been.

12 2022-03-08 20:29

>>12
Thank you for proving OP needs to become a civil servant instead.

13 2022-03-08 23:05 *

>>13
Civil servant cooooder is being fsf*.

14 2022-06-10 16:55

>>9
It's not my fault that the only thing I am relatively good at is programming. Or maybe it is my fault, but I don't really seem to be able to do anything about it.

15 2022-06-10 17:20

destroy all software

16 2022-06-10 17:20

you should make a botnet which specifically targets IoT devices and disable all of them

17 2022-06-10 18:30

Make like a Rasta AI that smokes cyber-weed out of a techno bong with like a snappy attitude mon and a vocoder patois lawdamercy.

18 2022-06-11 01:57

BOMBACLATT MOn

19 2022-06-13 02:03

>>1
Use information better

20 2022-08-03 09:43

Turn off all social media sites

21 2022-08-03 10:13 *

>>20

we are so sorry about this known bug but its np hard

22 2022-08-03 18:59

not sorry about these dubs

23 2022-08-03 19:22 *

Move to the woods and mail bombs to jews.

24 2022-08-03 20:14

>>23 thanks for the free bombs bro my muslim assets will love these

25 2022-08-03 20:26

astaggfirulla kaffir. we promote peace

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