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>“I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” The Google Cloud engineer was subsequently fired Well google cloud can't power genocide, so what is your

>“I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” The Google Cloud engineer was subsequently fired Well google cloud can't power genocide, so what is your problem?

GordonS 3y ago
I'm not saying it is, but technically, yes, it could play a role. For example, US-backed Israel has used an AI system to decide where to drop bombs. They likely need lots of storage for videos of their drones killing people. They likely used databases with the locations of journalists so they could murder them. Just a few examples, but compute and storage can definitely play a part.
- ReptileMan 3y ago
  And those types of data will be stored om Google cloud? Can't we just assume that the person is bored, overly political and naive?
  - DonHopkins 3y ago
    As an unrepentant racist who's bored enough to post about your racist beliefs on Hacker News, you're overly political and naive, so who are you to talk? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605689 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605689
    - ReptileMan 3y ago
      I am the one that didn't get fired because of performance
Qem 3y ago
> Well google cloud can't power genocide, so what is your problem? There is a book every technologist should read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust As the proverb says, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- ReptileMan 3y ago
  >It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. And this is a quote that ever technologist should also know. Anyway Israel is hardly engaged with a genocide currently, and even if it was there is absolutely no evidence that google cloud is having any kind of participation in it. So once again - just political grandstanding like the dimwits that throw soup at the mona lisa and glue themselves to the asphalt that think that this performative crap is cost free. Thankfully this time it was not cost free.

>“I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” The Google Cloud engineer was subsequently fired Well google cloud can't power genocide, so what is your problem?

GordonS 3y ago

I'm not saying it is, but technically, yes, it could play a role. For example, US-backed Israel has used an AI system to decide where to drop bombs. They likely need lots of storage for videos of their drones killing people. They likely used databases with the locations of journalists so they could murder them. Just a few examples, but compute and storage can definitely play a part.

ReptileMan 3y ago
And those types of data will be stored om Google cloud? Can't we just assume that the person is bored, overly political and naive?
- DonHopkins 3y ago
  As an unrepentant racist who's bored enough to post about your racist beliefs on Hacker News, you're overly political and naive, so who are you to talk? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605689 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605689
  - ReptileMan 3y ago
    I am the one that didn't get fired because of performance

Qem 3y ago

> Well google cloud can't power genocide, so what is your problem? There is a book every technologist should read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust As the proverb says, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

ReptileMan 3y ago
>It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. And this is a quote that ever technologist should also know. Anyway Israel is hardly engaged with a genocide currently, and even if it was there is absolutely no evidence that google cloud is having any kind of participation in it. So once again - just political grandstanding like the dimwits that throw soup at the mona lisa and glue themselves to the asphalt that think that this performative crap is cost free. Thankfully this time it was not cost free.