Matthew Green on Nostr: In any case, this doesn’t feel like an ethical issue that academic research has ...

In any case, this doesn’t feel like an ethical issue that academic research has really grappled with. There are individual researchers who admit the problem, but nobody seems to be looking at the overall result and saying “wait, we’re doing a bad thing. Should we stop?”

Maybe that’s just the way research is. We all love our research too much to ever stop doing it, no matter the consequences. I’ll cop to this too.

I just wish we would all take a break for a minute and have a conversation about whether we’re leaving this world better than we found it. //