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He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine
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#42200 submarine drones a year? Will these be dumped in the desert with the unused tanks and planes too? What a nightmare.
Please post a source of the “unused tanks and planes” dumped in the desert.
I don't understand why OP made that comment (it doesn't seem like a big deal) but the US military has a bunch of boneyards for every branch. They are more like "neatly parked until salvage wants them" rather than dumped.
Eg the Sierra Army Depot
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lassen_County,_C...
Davis-Monthan AFB
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aerial_photograp...
Re: He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Putting aside all the ai-recommends-you-eat-a-few-rocks-a-day evidence... Letting machines incapable of empathy, bereft of accountability for themselves or their creators, make decisions to end one or more lives, is a monstrous idea on its face. Additionally, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
Mechanized warfare has been a thing for generations now. What is the difference between AI and a pressure switch? AI can choose to NOT kill the 13 year old playing football in the field 5 years later.
Also a bad idea, and if I understand correctly, landmines are already considered a war crime if not removed after conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventi...
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#46(American here) I don't know anything about Palmer Luckey or Anduril, but I do believe in a strong national defense. As an individual, I can do approximately zero to stop weapons from being used for offense, rather than defense. That is wildly unfortunate and tragic, but (false dichotomy incoming) I would choose that path for my country 100% of the time over being under-armed. "The strong do what they will while the…
As posted in another thread, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
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Of all my colleagues I've had the chance to have a real talk with, defense was the only vertical where the developers more-often-than-not had a robust understanding of the moral and ethical questions their products posed. I might disagree with their choice to work there, but I respect that choice 1000 times more than the unexamined position. The default attitude I see elsewhere is that everyone has decided their empl…
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No, it won't. The Russian government, while dumb and incompetent to an unbelievable point, isn't dumb enough to try killing on American soil. Besides, it's not like the CEOs of Russian defense companies aren't publicly known.
> isn't dumb enough to try killing on American soil
They'll kill on English, German, and Austrian soil though...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko
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Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
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#50AI weapons seems like a bad bad idea.
>AI weapons seems like a bad bad idea.
AI weapons seems like an inevitability.