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HN might not be the best place to ask, though. There's a heavy bias in favor of open-source tech, which explicitly allows any use case (which implies allowing m
by quectophoton 3y ago
HN might not be the best place to ask, though. There's a heavy bias in favor of open-source tech, which explicitly allows any use case (which implies allowing military uses).
Also there's frequently a lot of comments which sing praises to SQLite, which was created literally for military purposes (according to Wikipedia, at least, so take that with a grain of salt).
What I mean with all this is, even if those examples are not related to art, there seems to be a general bias to the opposite of what you're asking for.
- eimrine 3y ago> open-source tech, which explicitly allows any use case (which implies allowing military uses). It seems very plausible until you try to reverse that statement. Are proprietary technologies (Palantir, TikTok, even Microsoft/Google/Apple) exactly peaceful? If you are developing some FOSS for killing people, you at least gonna name variables correctly, I mean "unsigned long long peopleKilled" will never be named as "kittensSaved".
- quectophoton 3y agoEh, "open source" just implies that certain hand-picked conditions are met, nothing more. Being good to society is not one of those conditions. If you think of open source as a subset of all software, less like a point in some number line and more like a Venn diagram, it makes more sense.
- photoGrant 3y agoIt definitely isn't. I expected most of the responses I've read. But thought and perspective needs not exist in a bubble. I hope my question helps illuminate the concerns people outside of a tech sphere might have with this growing consumption machine.