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Doesn't the fact that this is another step towards autonomous killing machines complicate your view of this? A lot of Silicon Valley's justification for its im
by awakeasleep 9y ago
Doesn't the fact that this is another step towards autonomous killing machines complicate your view of this?
A lot of Silicon Valley's justification for its immoral actions rests on the _belief_ of the inevitability of outcomes. It's ok to monopolize and centralize everything, discarding the lives of people who are negatively impacted because it's inevitable. It's ok to make robots able to kill people better because it's inevitable, etc.
The thing is, it's a _belief_ that this is inevitable — not a proven fact of nature. And people who don't believe in it will logically withdraw their cooperation from building that future.
Both sides are 'proving' their point of view. If enough people object, then it wasn't inevitable after all. If enough people work to bring us into that future, maybe it was. But thats the struggle and moral choice we face.
- coryfklein 9y agoI find it pretty easy to believe that other countries will continue to funnel money into military operations even if the US slows or stops. No, I can't prove that. But it seems like a very reasonable belief to have. What reason do you have to believe that it won't be so?
- larkeith 9y agoThe reason to believe it won't be so is the same reason not all tragedies of the common end in resource exhaustion - cooperation is possible, especially in such an internationally-connected industry as software development. From a less grassroots perspective, international regulations and sanctions tend to be fairly effective.
- ihsw2 9y agoThe free world does have enemies! We must seek them out!