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It's not a foregone conclusion. We have managed to ban chemical weapons. laser blinding weapons and biological weapons on a global scale. If there was sufficien
by lambdaone 2y ago
It's not a foregone conclusion. We have managed to ban chemical weapons. laser blinding weapons and biological weapons on a global scale. If there was sufficient will to do so, we could do this for autonomous weapons as well.
The argument that "bad people will do X", so we must do X to them first, is a race to the bottom.
This article is, however, very revealing about what Palantir wants to happen, without ever mentioning the profit motive.
- anon291 2y agoWe just had a pandemic whose cause is plausibly linked to bioweapons research. No one can possibly make the statement that we've managed to ban bio weapons in good faith.
- brokenmachine 2y agoI know we're all quite literally sick of it, but the pandemic is still going. Covid keeps killing more people every month than flu does in a year.
- anon291 2y agoPeople die. Not going to hide inside my house or really care all that much. I mean... I'm sorry if you lost someone, we all did. People getting sick is no reason to suspend daily life.
- brokenmachine 2y agoThe main thing that I learned over these four years is that an insane percentage of people are unbelievably selfish.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoSome types of tech are easier to ban. But some type of reesearch is near impossible to ban and verify that no one is actually working on it.
- ThrowawayR2 2y ago> "We have managed to ban chemical weapons. laser blinding weapons and biological weapons on a global scale." Bret Deveraux made a very compelling case that those bans only happened because those weapons were largely ineffective: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/ https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...