U.S. drone pilot leaks footage reveals accidental killing of children and adults

Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 12:22 PM UTC

Zenst wrote: post #90

pjmlp wrote: post #70

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I rather avoid an Oblivion like future.

Yes, many do seem to worry about AI more than nuclear weapons - more so if they even cross streams so too speak. But I do wonder how much of things are driven by worst case hoilloywood visualsations of things. Certainly the whole cold war and peoples mentalities, was very much media driven from the fear aspect. Will AI share the same and will we get to the stage that we see anti AI groups form and the term and histor…

Post by zd123 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 12:24 PM UTC

crazy_horse wrote: post #108

wayoutthere wrote: post #87

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We need to seriously examine our own morality for allowing these ghouls to basically genocide brown people. We are absolutely the baddies; between Iraq, Afghanistan and our air strikes on Syria, Libya, and Yemen during the same period killed 1 million civilians . We’re within an order of magnitude of the Holocaust, and we all just pretend everything is ok. I really don’t know why there aren’t more discussions of how…

Genuine question - how do you get that 1 million figure?

Post by simonh » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 12:25 PM UTC

hhsbz wrote: post #51

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It seems like the general population very largely don't support the Taliban, but for whatever reasons the urban populations aren't willing or able to stand up a credible defence. I suspect the problem is the Taliban are 'only' instituting Islamic law. It's hard to fire up a Muslim population against implementing, er, Islam even if they are against the actual resulting policies.

They don't based on what, UN polls?

Post by higherup » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 12:27 PM UTC

Laremere wrote: post #96

ceilingcorner wrote: post #12

I wonder if Facebook Twitter etc. banning violent and bloody content has prevented the public from protesting these things more widely. It is well known that TV broadcasts of Vietnam led to outrage growing against that war.

In a similar vein, I wonder if medical privacy laws are hurting us in this pandemic. If every time the hospitals filled up with patients, camera crews went through and documented all of the people suffering and dying, would those who aren't taking the pandemic seriously have their mind swayed? Obviously those medical privacy laws exist for a reason, but perhaps there should be more effort to ethically document suffer…

Post by torstenvl » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 12:28 PM UTC

wayoutthere wrote: post #109

crazy_horse wrote: post #108

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Genuine question - how do you get that 1 million figure?

It’s 800,000 direct civilian combat deaths and likely several times that from the ancillary dangers of war (starvation, land mines, etc). The designation of “non civilian combatant” was grossly overapplied (see OP about “he had a radio” or “he had an AK-47” as if every Afghan household didn’t have one after 40 years of war). https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/