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Comment by IanCal

A remarkable number of humans given really quite basic feedback will perform actions they know will very directly hurt or kill people.

There are a lot of critiques about quite how to interpret the results but in this context it’s pretty clear lots of humans can be at least coerced into doing something extremely unethical.

Start removing the harm one, two, three degrees and add personal incentives and is it that surprising if people violate ethical rules for kpis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

parent IanCal 8 months ago

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