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They'll start at image recognition and they'll end up doing much more in the end, especially if their government contracts keep increasing in value. Why go dow
by mtgx 9y ago
They'll start at image recognition and they'll end up doing much more in the end, especially if their government contracts keep increasing in value.
Why go down this path at all? Google doesn't need to be a war contractor (I think "defense contractor" is a misnomer these days - we all know what this tech is used for: bloody violent and usually unfair/illegal war).
Google should avoid becoming a sponsor of death in the world. What happened to "changing the world" (for the better, I assume)? Is feeding the American war machine changing the world for the better? Really?
- laughingman2 9y agoThe defenders of american military in this thread have forgotten that for the past half century, the american war machine has commited war crimes across the world. If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdD9uSrNFT4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdD9uSrNFT4 https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/ https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/ It is commendable that employees with moral fibre at google are saying no to the industrial war machine, that feeds on global conflict. And there is no apriori reason as to argue that military funding is the only way to do ground breaking research. Ironic that some in the political spectrum who generally defend the military also feverently view goverment spending as inefficient to markets.