Comment by pavel_lishin
11 hours ago
> We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight.
Hope is neat, but are the signatories willing to quit their jobs over this? Kind of a hollow threat if not.
They put their names to their position publicly. That is meaningful action.
Well, some did. I was surprised to see so many anonymous signatories.
Only 600 from Google and 93 from OpenAI? And many of those anonymous? Truly our industry is full of cowards and complicit people.
They wrote a letter. Meaningless. How many are going to quit their highly compensated jobs over it?
Quitting their jobs? How is that the pragmatic or effective response?
Quitting no. Quite quitting or internal turmoil could be beneficial. Of course, in case these people meaningfully contributed in the first place otherwise it's a good pretext to fire for cause without any severance.
How would it be pragmatic to say, "oh well!" and continue working there?
Maybe their union will call a strike
Ha! Good one!
You don’t need a union to quiet quit or throw a shoe.