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"Heroic" hahahaha

A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
When you consider the extent of regulatory capture in the defense industry, the degree to which prime contractors have come to overspecialize in regulatory compliance and lobbying, and the nigh insurmountable barriers to entry for new firms -- you might reconsider. Before Anduril was established, nobody was certain whether a company like that could even exist. A company, focused on defense projects, that doesn't just make software, but makes real things in the real world -- and that company operates along modern lines and isn't a bloated old MIC dinosaur. The odds were stacked heavily against them. But they're winning.
- lccerina 2y ago
  The fact that a company selling the most unethical ideas ever: unmanned, automated killing machines, is "winning" is the scariest thing ever. There is nothing heroic in selling weapons.
  - A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
    In centuries past, armored knights considered crossbows and early firearms unethical and unsporting. That didn't stop the armies of the time from employing them -- and warfare adapted, as it always does. Today, all major powers are experimenting with, or already utilizing, "unmanned, automated killing machines" -- in addition to AI for C4I and other purposes. A responsible Department of Defense has literally no choice but to keep pace, and it would be the height of irresponsibility not to attempt to outrun its competitors. They don't have the luxury of closing their eyes and pretending that the world is at peace and that swords must now become ploughshares -- they have to take the world as it really is, not as they might hope it is. The bottom line is simply this: The desire of peace-loving people to spare the world from militarism and war must include a commitment to maintain a strong and capable defense. Besides, military procurement in the USA is slow as molasses, captured by lobbyists and a clique of prime contractors, and red-tape laden to a degree that people working in the tech sector can hardly comprehend. Anduril, in its way, is working to fix that extremely serious problem.

"Heroic" hahahaha

When you consider the extent of regulatory capture in the defense industry, the degree to which prime contractors have come to overspecialize in regulatory compliance and lobbying, and the nigh insurmountable barriers to entry for new firms -- you might reconsider. Before Anduril was established, nobody was certain whether a company like that could even exist. A company, focused on defense projects, that doesn't just make software, but makes real things in the real world -- and that company operates along modern lines and isn't a bloated old MIC dinosaur. The odds were stacked heavily against them. But they're winning.

lccerina 2y ago
The fact that a company selling the most unethical ideas ever: unmanned, automated killing machines, is "winning" is the scariest thing ever. There is nothing heroic in selling weapons.
- A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
  In centuries past, armored knights considered crossbows and early firearms unethical and unsporting. That didn't stop the armies of the time from employing them -- and warfare adapted, as it always does. Today, all major powers are experimenting with, or already utilizing, "unmanned, automated killing machines" -- in addition to AI for C4I and other purposes. A responsible Department of Defense has literally no choice but to keep pace, and it would be the height of irresponsibility not to attempt to outrun its competitors. They don't have the luxury of closing their eyes and pretending that the world is at peace and that swords must now become ploughshares -- they have to take the world as it really is, not as they might hope it is. The bottom line is simply this: The desire of peace-loving people to spare the world from militarism and war must include a commitment to maintain a strong and capable defense. Besides, military procurement in the USA is slow as molasses, captured by lobbyists and a clique of prime contractors, and red-tape laden to a degree that people working in the tech sector can hardly comprehend. Anduril, in its way, is working to fix that extremely serious problem.