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Because most small parties are ineffectual hobby project clown cart side shows.

Those LinkedIn emails are getting out of hand.

/me laughs in void*

Did anyone say discovery?

This is more text, I’ll give you that, but it’s still not clear how it relates to professional ethics codes of journalists.

Surely you are not trying to say that professional ethics codes in and of themselves lead to wife beating, serial murder, prison abuse and genocide?

Unfortunately there is no one calling the shots. We’re all just drifting.

Billionaire doing the wrong thing is just a really simple story that journalists know how to write. The rest of the world is a convoluted mess.

this assumes a moral authority, which can be dangerous

This barely even means anything. What do you really mean?

When I compare it to the shift to high level languages, I don’t mean it casually. I mean it as a direct analogy.

Business languages like COBOL were originally intended to be used directly by “non programmers”. We know how that turned out. Programmers did not go extinct. In fact, it led to a huge increase as more and more tasks were in economic scope for automation. The productivity increase of high level languages (which is huge!) is directly responsible for this.

I don’t think AI will make programmers disappear. But it will change the way the field is organized, the way the work is done, and the tasks that can be economically automated. And, here’s the thing, that goes for most knowledge economy jobs. Programming is just the most visible now.

I think you are vastly overestimating the uniqueness of most of what we do

I call it the “magical meat fallacy”.

We don’t disagree on much. It’s going to be a long and exciting road.

I would caution however about hanging your hat too much on all- or-nothing epistemology. It doesn’t really matter whether something or someone “knows” something if they can apply that information in a useful way. There are gradations of knowing (also for humans) and there are tasks that can be done productively at every step.

If you’ve ever had an intern or a really green junior you know what I mean ;)

There’s a responsibility to consider the impact of your reporting. See for example the SPJ code of ethics under “minimize harm”

https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

Journalism ethics is a very broad topic, but it’s more than just about reporting facts. It’s about serving your purpose as the fourth estate.

It’s a significant leap in abstraction. At least as big as the introduction of the first high level programming languages.