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If someone approached you on LI to build "machine learning to make murder robots", do consider the (99%) possibility you're just a sample point in some social s

• opportune 8y ago
  It wasn’t social science research, the recruiter was working for an actual robotics company with almost exclusively military customers
  • kerng 8y ago
    Always be suspicious of anything like that. Probably wasn't the case here but nothing prevents one setting up a network of fake profiles to appear legit and get data from others. The Internet is a scary place.
    • opportune 8y ago
      That may be true but considering the job was based around where I live and the company has many news articles written about it and lots of publicly verifiable funding, I don't think it was fake. Of course like I said it's not like the recruiter was like "hey wanna make killer robots??" it's more that in doing research for the company and my own job description that's what it seemed likely I would be partially working on
• wool_gather 8y ago
  "murder robots" is most likely just parent's translation of the job description, for purposes of getting their point across.