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Me.
At least, I trust him as much as any other foreign[0] CEO.
For all the stuff people complain about him doing, what I don't trust is that Californian ethics don't map well enough onto my ethics…
…but I'm not sure any ethics works too well when examined. A while ago I came up with the idea of "dot product morality"[1] — when I was a kid, "good vs evil" was enough, then I realised there were shades of grey, then I realised someone could be totally moral on one measure (say honesty) and totally immoral on another (say you're a vegan for ethical reasons and they're a meat lover), and I figured you could say two people are "morally aligned" when their ethics vectors are pointing the same way.
But more recently I realised that in a high dimensional space, there's a huge number of ways for vectors to be almost the same and yet 90° apart[2].
[0] I'm not American, so to me he's foreign
[1] I really need to move my blog to github, the only search results on Google are the previous times I posted this to HN: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/dot-product...
[2] Via trying to calculate the dot product of two Markov chains: https://github.com/BenWheatley/MarkovChain-Dot-Product-compa...
Me.
At least, I trust him as much as any other foreign[0] CEO.
For all the stuff people complain about him doing, what I don't trust is that Californian ethics don't map well enough onto my ethics…
…but I'm not sure any ethics works too well when examined. A while ago I came up with the idea of "dot product morality"[1] — when I was a kid, "good vs evil" was enough, then I realised there were shades of grey, then I realised someone could be totally moral on one measure (say honesty) and totally immoral on another (say you're a vegan for ethical reasons and they're a meat lover), and I figured you could say two people are "morally aligned" when their ethics vectors are pointing the same way.
But more recently I realised that in a high dimensional space, there's a huge number of ways for vectors to be almost the same and yet 90° apart[2].
[0] I'm not American, so to me he's foreign
[1] I really need to move my blog to github, the only search results on Google are the previous times I posted this to HN: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/dot-product...
[2] Via trying to calculate the dot product of two Markov chains: https://github.com/BenWheatley/MarkovChain-Dot-Product-compa...