In my experience, they’re mostly just impulsive and have already written their bottom line (“I want to work on AI projects that look cool to me”), and after that they come up with excuses to justify this to themselves.
Sorry, I will explain further for clarity. I am Buddhist and in that philosophy the phrase “confused” has an esoteric usage. E.g. “that person suffers because they’re confused about the nature of reality”. I think this lab person is confused about how much suffering they’re going to create for themselves and others (i.e. it hasn’t been seen or internalised).
In my experience, they’re mostly just impulsive and have already written their bottom line (“I want to work on AI projects that look cool to me”), and after that they come up with excuses to justify this to themselves.
Hi! Thanks for your comment :)
I basically file this under “confused”.
Interesting, in your ontology I’d much more straightforwardly characterize it as “callous”
Sorry, I will explain further for clarity. I am Buddhist and in that philosophy the phrase “confused” has an esoteric usage. E.g. “that person suffers because they’re confused about the nature of reality”. I think this lab person is confused about how much suffering they’re going to create for themselves and others (i.e. it hasn’t been seen or internalised).