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Thankfully Russia, China, etc have the same qualms as we do in the United States and will refused to send their brightest engineers to work on weapons so they d
by declan_roberts 5mo ago
Thankfully Russia, China, etc have the same qualms as we do in the United States and will refused to send their brightest engineers to work on weapons so they don't become "morally compromised"!!!
- gambiting 5mo agoI don't know if you're being sarcastic(sounds like you are!) but indeed a lot of engineers left Russia after the war in Ukraine started as they didn't want to be drafted and didn't want to contribute to the war effort in some way, even if indirectly. Of course, many stayed or even willingly help. See how many engineers from Iran work abroad too, for moral and other reasons. The point is - this happens everywhere, it's not just some weird western thing.
- cooper_ganglia 5mo ago[flagged]
- wood_spirit 5mo agoJust curious, did the move on Greenland and Iran have national security interest? And is it economical or life threatening?
- cooper_ganglia 5mo ago[flagged]
- griffzhowl 5mo agoNational security can mean protecting a society founded on the values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It can also mean facilitating a militaristic surveillance state. Not necessarily the same things, and at some point we might have to choose who's side we're on
- d5lt5 5mo agoI did and helped d33ps33k. You are welcome!
- wewtyflakes 5mo agoWe, the people, ostensibly get to say what these security interests are. Also, the security policy executed on by the state is not some immutable monolith. One can agree or disagree with it as it changes over time, and hopefully, influence its direction to arc towards goodness.
- titzer 5mo agoI don't think the long-term game theory of race to the bottom works out quite how you think. "Our enemies would have no qualms building a weapon that will end life on earth! We better build it first because we're the good guys!"
- declan_roberts 5mo agoПослушайте этого парня!
- notJim 5mo agoThis was the same logic that was used when building nuclear weapons, and many of the scientists involved in that tried to find a different path (most notably Niels Bohr). I think we would be in a much better world if they had been successful. It's good that we're trying again w/ LLMs.
- mvelbaum 5mo ago[flagged]
- tensor 5mo agoThe US is sure becoming an unfree scary place just like Russia. Keep it up following those role models!
- yibg 5mo agoWe also used to point to Russia and China as places we don't want to copy.
- declan_roberts 5mo agoYou don't have to copy them. You have to beat them.
- genxy 5mo agoPeople in those countries do have qualms, they are people after all and they choose to work in other fields.
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