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> 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?
by cheonn638 7mo 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 7mo ago[flagged]
- klhutchins 7mo agoThere's lots of money for everyone on the way down
- piloto_ciego 7mo agoI wish people would seriously start looking past this... "enough" should be the goal? But maybe I'm crazy
- omoikane 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo ago"Defending one's nation" and "capitulating to the people in charge like Hegseth" are very much not the same thing.
- saulapremium 7mo ago[dead]
- fuy 7mo ago[flagged]
- dang 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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.