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GPS was developed primarily to improve the aiming of nuclear weapons, afaik, let's not fool ourselves. Neural prosthetics sound like they want to create automa
by justizin 11y ago
GPS was developed primarily to improve the aiming of nuclear weapons, afaik, let's not fool ourselves.
Neural prosthetics sound like they want to create automatons, but it's possible that they want to deal with the military's epic mental health crisis.
- etrautmann 11y agoThat's without a doubt a major motivation of neural prosthetics. Rehabilitating soldiers who've lost limbs due to IEDs, etc, is one of the explicit reasons for DARPA's REPAIR program as one example. I don't see that as a weaponization though, and find it a morally defensible motivation for research, though I recognize that many members of this community in particular may avoid projects with any connection to defense.