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michaelt ◴[27 Aug 25 08:19 UTC] No.45036843[source]▶

I'd be interested in knowing how many of y'all are being taught about this sort of thing in college ethics/safety/reliability classes.

I was taught about this in engineering school, as part of a general engineering course also covering things like bathtub reliability curves and how to calculate the number of redundant cooling pumps a nuclear power plant needs. But it's a long time since I was in college.

Is this sort of thing still taught to engineers and developers in college these days?

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1. mrguyorama ◴[27 Aug 25 16:47 UTC] No.45042023[source]▶

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The therac-25 was just one of the many incidents we covered in my Software Ethics course for my Computer Science degree. The problem is not "we have to teach it", the problem is that at least half the talented people in the room with me in that class considered the entire thing "a joke" bullshit class that just wasted their time.

You can't teach people to care.

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