Perhaps due to FOMO outbreak[1], upper management everywhere has demanded AI-powered productivity gains, based on LoC/PR metrics, it looks like they are getting it.

1. The longer I work in this industry, the more it becomes clear that CxO's aren't great at projecting/planning, and default to copy-cat, herd behaviors when uncertain.

No, because you're insinuating that since we're all responsible for some micromorts[1], somehow our culpability is the same as those who are some responsible for hundreds or thousands of morts[0], which is equating across 10 orders of magnitude in risk to human lives.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

2. Is that what you call 10^6 micromorts?

> To the extent it is, people are universally guilty of it, unless you can find a clear bright line for which selfish(/rational)

We all ingest some level of arsenic, and are "universally" exposed to radioactivity, but just because something is falls on a continuous spectrum, doesn't mean all levels are equal, there is a point where it becomes too much. That point will not be the same for everyone, but it exists.

> Is it some number of hops from the person who dies that makes the difference?

Not according to the Nuremberg trials.