Why loudly rejecting "curing cancer matters less than my job" matters, per viral AI debate
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-10-13
In a repost, @segyges argues that obvious moral abominations like "curing cancer is less important than my job satisfaction" must be loudly rejected—because well-meaning, intelligent non-specialists risk adopting variants of that thesis without understanding the full context. An ethical pushback against self-interested framing in AI-labor debates.
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