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Interesting! A hypothetical question... If you were to find out that software you wrote for a UAV was responsible for murdering an innocent civilian, would yo

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• arcanon 5y ago
  If that dude can program a UAV to be the responsible party I think that means he also created AI.
• silicon2401 5y ago
  Yeah pretty much. To paraphrase Zizek, we often talk about the violence required for a revolution while ignoring the violence required to maintain today's status quo. For me to be a typical person, an incredible amount of suffering is required: slavery, murder, trafficking, theft, and ecological harm through fishing; much of the same involved in producing consumer goods like computers and chocolate; civilians dying for the US to maintain its global interests. In my opinion, unless you're making active efforts to live without benefiting from someone else's harm (following a Jain diet, living in the woods, living off the land, etc), you're no different than me if I programmed a drone that person B constructed for person C to deliver to person D who ordered its use by person E who deployed it. It's just easier to convince yourself you're not responsible when everyone else is also doing it, and when believing that you're not harming others affords you the convenience of chocolate and computers.