I suspect having "Sat on Google Committee" is a pretty nice résumé item.
There's lots of extremely qualified people fighting over working with/for Google, even for free.
Also, there are many idealists, who believe that they, alone, can "bring light to darkness."
I can't really blame them, but I'm old and cynical, with a singed tuchus, from playing that game, so you probably won't find me sitting on these committees.
> I suspect having "Sat on Google Committee" is a pretty nice résumé item
Absolutely. I'd take it. I'd probably try to undermine the effort, but I'd still take the position!
I think the era of subversive engineering is dawning. We've had wave after wave of high-profile resignations and data leaks in the name of ethics, only to see their position filled with two worse candidates: a hydra of corruption!
How soon until ethical engineers realize protests don't work and start to corrode monopolies from the inside out? (like when Agent K jumps down the throat of The Bug in MiB.) Is that in itself ethical? That's a tough question, we'll know it when we see it?
There's lots of extremely qualified people fighting over working with/for Google, even for free.
Also, there are many idealists, who believe that they, alone, can "bring light to darkness."
I can't really blame them, but I'm old and cynical, with a singed tuchus, from playing that game, so you probably won't find me sitting on these committees.