I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.
“I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.”
— Brianna Wu · Asking
The World Motivation
I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.
“I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.”
— Brianna Wu · Asking
I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.
I don't regret standing up to Gamergate at all.
The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.
When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.
I was adopted into an extremely right-wing religious family.
I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
I don't keep asking people if they have kids or whether they should have another child if they have one and only then their family will be complete.
You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, 'I wanna be an actress.'
When 'Game Of Thrones' came out, lots of interviews were coming in, and people asking me to do certain things which would push me out there. Like this whole Instagram and Twitter thing - getting more followers doesn't bother me at all.