4 ms·

I have exactly ARPAnet in mind when I said "Or it's just the nature of tools?" :D I should've worded it better, good natured here means good-intention, in whic

I have exactly ARPAnet in mind when I said "Or it's just the nature of tools?" :D I should've worded it better, good natured here means good-intention, in which there will be bad intention that we will probably NEVER see (C&D, military secret, etc...) In this case, what's stopping the scientists and/or funder from misusing/weaponizing this implant? p/s: guess I'm biased when it's DARPA, since it's US military complex... but hey, I'm enjoying the Internet :D

irascible 9y ago
Yeah of course they're going to use it to augment soldiers, turning them into superefficient killing machines, because killing more of the enemy faster, saves lives and money.
zitterbewegung 9y ago
For one thing how would you weaponize this? Do you think that scientists are robots and don't have their own morality? You still haven't told me how to design a technology to be "good intentioned". Technology has no intension it's the people who use it. It's really disturbing that you automatically assume that technology is evil because who created it and you have a prejudice because it is DARPA.
- pixl97 9y ago
  I automatically assume any new technology will be used for evil because we are all humans. Individual morality breaks down over large groups with separation of knowledge.
- erikpukinskis 9y ago
  > You still haven't told me how to design a technology to be "good intentioned". Design. Design simply encodes the values of the designer in the physical technology. A virtuous designer will design something which makes good things easy. A nihilistic designer will design something which makes their life easy. It’s unavoidable. That’s why so much software these days is harmful, the tech world is largely populated with supremacists and nihilists. (I don’t mean that in any particularly judgemental way. Supremacism is the norm in the wealthier slices of American culture, so it’s unremarkable that Silicon Valley would end up reflecting that. And the competitive nature of funding and hiring self selects for supremacists as well. And for those who don’t tend towards supremacism, nihilism one of the few ways to stay sane amongst supremacists.)

irascible 9y ago

Yeah of course they're going to use it to augment soldiers, turning them into superefficient killing machines, because killing more of the enemy faster, saves lives and money.

zitterbewegung 9y ago

For one thing how would you weaponize this? Do you think that scientists are robots and don't have their own morality? You still haven't told me how to design a technology to be "good intentioned". Technology has no intension it's the people who use it. It's really disturbing that you automatically assume that technology is evil because who created it and you have a prejudice because it is DARPA.

pixl97 9y ago
I automatically assume any new technology will be used for evil because we are all humans. Individual morality breaks down over large groups with separation of knowledge.
erikpukinskis 9y ago
> You still haven't told me how to design a technology to be "good intentioned". Design. Design simply encodes the values of the designer in the physical technology. A virtuous designer will design something which makes good things easy. A nihilistic designer will design something which makes their life easy. It’s unavoidable. That’s why so much software these days is harmful, the tech world is largely populated with supremacists and nihilists. (I don’t mean that in any particularly judgemental way. Supremacism is the norm in the wealthier slices of American culture, so it’s unremarkable that Silicon Valley would end up reflecting that. And the competitive nature of funding and hiring self selects for supremacists as well. And for those who don’t tend towards supremacism, nihilism one of the few ways to stay sane amongst supremacists.)