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As a tech worker who doesn't want to do work for the military, I know I'd be much more open to it if our military were primarily focused on defending us from ge
by _bxg1 8y ago
As a tech worker who doesn't want to do work for the military, I know I'd be much more open to it if our military were primarily focused on defending us from genuine threats (ie., China and Russia) instead of playing imperialism in the Middle East.
- oh_sigh 8y agoBoots on the ground actions certainly aren't targeting China and Russia, but what about capability improvements which will pay off if we have to defend ourselves from 'genuine threats'?
- _bxg1 8y agoThe HoloLens case seems pretty boots-on-the-ground to me, and many of the other tech sector contracts you read about have to do with drones/machine learning/image recognition, i.e. taking humans even further out of the equation when it comes to patrolling third-world countries. I won't be a part of that.
- oh_sigh 8y agoOut of curiosity, how do you view America A-bombing Japan? Do you think that it would have been preferable to go forward with operation downfall? In that case, it was a situation where America weighed massive losses on both sides through brute man-on-man mayhem versus using technology to inflict massive casualties on only one side.
- gdy 8y agoAnd how exactly is Russia threatening the US?
- _bxg1 8y agohttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/inf-treaty-exit-putin-says-hes-ready-to-escalate-to-cuban-missile-crisis-levels/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/inf-treaty-exit-...
- gdy 8y agoAnd? It's all about possible tit-for-tat if the US threatens Russia. Russia never threatens to attack first. Apparently, the desirable situation for the US is that it can fuck any country and no country cannot harm it back? And if it isn't so, the country is threatening the US, right?