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Maybe we can set up an automated slaughter factory for immigrants from the global south at the border. It'll be pretty dang cool.
by vangelis 7y ago
Maybe we can set up an automated slaughter factory for immigrants from the global south at the border. It'll be pretty dang cool.
- 15155 7y agohttps://www.wired.com/2007/06/for-years-and-y/ https://www.wired.com/2007/06/for-years-and-y/ If these existed, would people continue attempt to cross illegally? The thought-provoking argument is that these pieces of technology, if foolproof, would go completely unused as people inherently value their lives (but not laws.)
- notahacker 7y ago140 documented victims of the clearly demarked killing zones of the Berlin Wall suggests they probably wouldn't go unused. Also can't imagine such technology being successful at actually stopping migrant flows somewhere like the US border unless the government moved to line the coast with them...
- analognoise 7y agoAny real technology has dual uses; I cannot say that the things I've worked on are always a positive good for humanity as a whole, they depend on the people wielding them. I wish I could have lived in a bubble, developing "tech" that didn't matter and was only positive, but even the most disconnected web jockey is paid for by the surveillance-capitalism dollars of the modern internet. That tech might be worse for society overall - it gave us the creeping global eye at a pace faster than legislation could keep up with it, or that society could adapt, and it seemed innocuous at first.