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It's also a moderately different can of worms to work on projects like breaking enemy encryption during a war (Turing), building and programming more and more p
by philwelch 7y ago
It's also a moderately different can of worms to work on projects like breaking enemy encryption during a war (Turing), building and programming more and more powerful computers to help design nuclear weapons (von Neumann), developing a network protocol for DARPA's national computer network (Cerf and Kahn), building microchips for bombers and missiles (Fairchild Semiconductor), and it goes on from there.
Clearly, optimizing targeted advertising on the internet is a higher moral calling.
- shadowgovt 7y agoI agree. Especially when the nation that would use the drone technology has demonstrated a willingness to use said technology for reckless assassination of other country's citizens without declaration of war.
- philwelch 7y agoWell you are free to go live your life under the rule of the Taliban or the Iranian mullahs if you really think they're the good guys in all of this. Edit: There's a flagged-dead reply that says, "I don't, but I also don't think the Haska Meyna wedding party were the bad guys in all of this." Well, I don't think so either, which is why I think it's good to develop technology that improves the ability to accurately recognize drone targets!
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