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100 google employees wow
by beanjuiceII 8mo ago
100 google employees wow
- verdverm 8mo agoevery change starts with a few people, and then it grows
- bigyabai 8mo agoGoogle is grandfathered into a few preexisting defense contracts. Any red lines you draw may have already been crossed.
- pempem 8mo agoLiterally yesterday google changed how secrets work. Its very possible to introduce change.
- busko 8mo agoDo you have any references for this? I'd like to know more.
- verdverm 8mo agoContracts expire and can be renegotiated, or even reneged on if you are willing to accept the consequences (which you may see as preferable to enabling wanton murder)
- cheonn638 8mo ago> every change starts with a few people, and then it grows your opinion is defense contracts are bad my opinion is defense contracts are good who is correct? probably me since 99.9% of Googlers won’t leave over this
- piloto_ciego 8mo ago[flagged]
- klhutchins 8mo agoThere's lots of money for everyone on the way down
- piloto_ciego 8mo agoI wish people would seriously start looking past this... "enough" should be the goal? But maybe I'm crazy
- omoikane 8mo ago> if all your friends were jumping off of a bridge would you do it too? Probably. https://xkcd.com/1170/ https://xkcd.com/1170/ Although in the context of the parent comment, majority of Googlers probably aren't working on things directly related to controversial topics, instead they are probably working on mundane and non-external facing projects like "how do I migrate my libraries from this deprecated dependency to this other shiny new thing".
- dotancohen 8mo agoWhy is there any controversy about defending one's nation being "good" or "bad"? I can not believe what I am reading here, and how the single comment supporting defending one's country is so heavily downvoted. Qatar has poisoned Western online communities such that all defence of the United States is considered taboo? I don't even live in the US and I am frightened by what I see here.
- nailer 8mo agoOh I believe it’s important to defend the country, but not because it’s a popular opinion. I dislike any statement that believes truth is based on consensus.
- lordofgibbons 8mo agoThe controversy isn't about defending one's country, it's about you and the parent comment author assuming what this is all about without reading the article. The core of the issue about autonomous use of AI in mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous use of AI in automated weapons that make kill decisions. Anthropic is perfectly fine with working with the War Department and "defending one's nation". But they are not okay with their AI being used to make a mockery of the 4th amendment and making automated kill/no-kill decisions about actual human lives.
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- seattle_spring 8mo ago"Defending one's nation" and "capitulating to the people in charge like Hegseth" are very much not the same thing.
- saulapremium 8mo ago[dead]
- fuy 8mo ago[flagged]
- dang 8mo agoWe've banned the other account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, but - WTF? I don't want to ban you because it doesn't look like you have a habit of posting like this, but please don't do this kind of thing here again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- wqaatwt 8mo agoHe’s certainly mostly right about > me since 99.9% of Googlers won’t leave over this Of course maybe not 99.9% but almost certainly >= 95%
- verdverm 8mo agoThanks for informing me of my opinion on defense contracts /s Their goal is not to leave, it is to start a conversation that hopefully ends up changing company policy.
- dietr1ch 8mo agoAnd they'll be terminated by Jan 2027. Anything too scandalous will be done in secrecy thanks to code&project silos.
- hyfgfh 8mo agoNext victims of "AI productivity gains"
- raldi 8mo ago200