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Slightly more nuanced. I think there is a clear difference between, say, selling food to the military (the service you provide generally allows the military to
by waisbrot 9y ago
Slightly more nuanced. I think there is a clear difference between, say, selling food to the military (the service you provide generally allows the military to run better and the military is frequently responsible for killing people) versus selling bullets to the military (the service you provide allows the military to kill people).
Weapons-targeting systems clearly falls into the latter category. I've worked on military-funded projects for machine translation and I don't feel guilty about that. I would not work on projects (military-funded or otherwise) that were used for targeting. I think that my position is internally-consistent.
- SmirkingRevenge 9y agoFair points. I think I agree with you that there is a distinction to be made between say, selling food and making bullets - the latter being a direct tool of violence. Its perfectly reasonable for a person to decide they would rather not spend their short time on earth developing such tools (especially if it would be easy for bad actors to abuse them). I suppose that is the objection many Googlers are making.