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Your ridiculous extreme is non-nonsensical as it is a straw man to intimate any equivalency between ISIS and Alphabet's machine learning division. As well, the
by assblaster 8y ago
Your ridiculous extreme is non-nonsensical as it is a straw man to intimate any equivalency between ISIS and Alphabet's machine learning division. As well, the Department of Defense often has open bidding for contracts for defense technologies. If Alphabet is competing for a contract, you can almost certainly be guaranteed that another corporation is bidding for the same contract.
Individual employees have a say in how products are developed, it is not like employees must adhere to a rigid medieval orthodoxy or otherwise suffer death/decapitation/torture/rape.
- emodendroket 8y agoYes, I'm sure other companies are interested in the work. That does not mean engineers who think the work is morally repellent must lend their talents to it anyway.
- posix_me_less 8y agoIn a hierarchical corporation, individual employees execute the will of their superiors. They can tweak the implementation of the product, but in this case they most probably have no power to prevent it from being implemented.