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Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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Re: Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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Could you imagine how the entire world would look if they took truth serum for an entire year, how different the world might be? Lies run the planet, and it stinks.

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Your point could be made, probably even stronger than it is currently, by omitting the insult at the start.

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Could you imagine how the entire world would look if they took truth serum for an entire year, how different the world might be? Lies run the planet, and it stinks.

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Re: Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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Could you imagine how the entire world would look if they took truth serum for an entire year, how different the world might be? Lies run the planet, and it stinks.

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moralistic relativism creates cover for egocentrism to destroy us

Re: Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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Could you imagine how the entire world would look if they took truth serum for an entire year, how different the world might be? Lies run the planet, and it stinks.

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That.. is a new one. I thought I am fairly aware of various forms of coded language. Care to elaborate?

Re: Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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Good, this idea that all weapons are evil is an insane luxury belief.

> all weapons are evil That wasn't the quote that was removed. Not even close, really.

It's definitely an opinion Google employees had in the last decade.

Actually I think a lot of people have it - just yesterday I saw someone on reddit claim Google was evil because it was secretly founded by the US military. And they were American. That's their military!

Re: Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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There is a wide range of moral and practical opinions between the statement “all weapons are evil” and “global corporations ought not to develop autonomous weapons”.

Palantir exists, this would just be competition. It's not like Google is the only company capable of creating autonomous weapons so if they abstain the world is saved. They just want a piece of the pie. The problem is the pie comes with dead babies, but if you forget that part it's alright.

Palantir doesn't make autonomous weapons, they sell SQL queries and have an evil-sounding name because it recruits juniors who think the name is cool.

Might be thinking of Anduril.

Re: Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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There is a wide range of moral and practical opinions between the statement “all weapons are evil” and “global corporations ought not to develop autonomous weapons”.

Tell Putin. He will entertain no such inhibitions.

> no such inhibitions

Propping up evil figure/regime/ideology (Bolsheviks/Communists) to justify remorseless evilness (Concentration camps/Nuclear bomb) isn't new nor unique, but particularly predictable.

Re: Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

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DoD invests in company making it commercially viable

Company says won't work for DoD

DoD initiates arm twisting and FOMO

Company now works for DoD

The origins of investment will often lead to relative outcomes of that investment. It's almost like DoD invested in Google for an informational weapon, which really should surprise no one.

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