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I don't know a lot about this. But my first thought is better undercover, intelligence work? Follow through on citizenship deals for locals that cooperate with
by cowpig 3y ago
I don't know a lot about this. But my first thought is better undercover, intelligence work? Follow through on citizenship deals for locals that cooperate with intelligence programs, grow & nurture those efforts.
The biometric stuff just seems too dangerous to me, and unlike e.g. Nuclear arsenals, there's no peaceful game-theoretical equilibrium at MAD, I just see an extremely effective tool for the eradication of groups of people, and I don't trust human beings not to misuse that, especially with machine intelligence getting so powerful so fast.
It all feels frighteningly unstable to me.
edit: A perhaps more lucid way to explain what I mean: I am afraid of a world where the cost of eliminating a group of people is low enough that it outweighs the incentive to adapt & negotiate peaceful coexistence, even without what I see as an innate human bias towards destroying groups we don't like. Do violent, authoritarian regimes begin to gain an edge over peaceful, democratic ones?
- LtWorf 3y agoI've met a NATO (non USA) soldier who has been doing intelligence work in Afghanistan. He said that the USA method is to go to some village, kill the head and say "now you have democracy, elect a new leader", and chaos ensues. While our way is "we build you a well and a road, let us know if someone comes to recruit young people". Of course since the USA soldiers are the most, their way is the one that happens more often.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoI've never seen this in any of the villages that I've been to, nor have I heard of this from people that I know.