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There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people. ”
It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere. ”
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. ”
Sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many 'intelligent' systems that shape how we are categorized and advertised to. ”
We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies. ”
Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder. ”
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals. ”
When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal. ”
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. ”
Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy. ”