Comment by eduction
15 hours ago
So why would we want them setting policy for the DoD? Laws are enacted through a fundamentally democratic process defined over hundreds of years. Why wouldn’t that be the way to govern use of tools?
Why would we want to trade our constitution for, effectively, “rules Sam Altman came up with”?
Part of the problem is that due to a combination of the electoral college, gerrymandering, voter supression, propaganda, and Citizens United; America's government is not meaningfully democratic.
Even setting that aside, I don't think that people are saying that they want corporations to make the rules. Rather, what I think they are saying is that they don't want AI to be used for mass surveilance or autonomous weapons and cutting the DoD off at the corporate level is one way to accomplish that.
Voter suppression is not a large scale problem in American (neither is voter fraud.) I would be curious why you mentioned that?
America is an indirect democracy, which isn’t a flaw it’s a design choice. Things like the electoral college still follow a process where the people choose (same with the Supreme Court) it’s just staggered as a system that prioritizes stability over big swings/rapid change.
College kids in Texas can't vote where they go to school despite living there nine months out of the year. https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/09/06/5-ways-texas-politician...
Native Americans can't vote because they don't have a designated physical address. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-...
Millions of americans don't have the ID they need to vote: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/mill...
Voter suppression is a huge problem.
> Voter suppression is not a large scale problem in American
So you aren’t a person of color who lives in the south I assume? I could also make a couple educated guesses about where you consume news from as well but I’m refrain.
Needless to say, it absolutely is an issue exacerbated by Supreme Court actions pretending it wouldn’t quickly become one.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/its-very-much-a-racial-issue...
There’s a strong push right now to mandate voter ID requirements that could block married women from voting (if their last name doesn’t match their birth certificate).
And more stringent ID requirements are discriminatory against the poor, who often don’t have the time and resources to deal with the bureaucracy necessary to do things like travel to retrieve a new copy of their birth certificate.
Recent suppression efforts are documented at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...
Use its real name, the one orange shitler renamed it to: the department of war.
Why the fuck does the department of war get to dictate anything to a private organization?
Why does the constitution say that you have to let the government murder schoolgirls with your tools?
He doesn’t actually have the authority to rename the department. That would be up to Congress.
Lol. As if a tiny thing like that would stop him. Have you heard about the tariffs? Or starting a war yesterday?
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> renamed it to
Accuracy. He renamed it back to what it was called originally and accurately, in 1789. "Department of Defense" is being used to manipulate the masses into thinking into a different direction.
It was mislabelled to "Department of Defense" post ww2, 1949.
Sure sounds like congress renamed it. Those damn masses, exercising democratic power.
Trump will put a stop to that!
Loyalty to the constitution third, loyalty to the party second, loyalty to the president first. That's the order of things in a fascist society and Trump has made very exceptionally clear that he thinks that should be the way of it in the US...
Why would you want a duplicitous CEO in charge of your countries terminator systems?
A corporation, according to US law, is considered a "person" and afforded many of the same rights as an individual citizen (https://www.fincen.gov/who-united-states-person).
Even outside of the US, a corporation is widely considered to be a company of people with their own agency and rights.
A person or group of people should be able to set their own boundaries without being subjected to immoral and unjust retaliation, i.e. corporate murder (https://x.com/i/status/2027515599358730315).
Also, ask any frontier model what Pete Hegseth thinks about democracy.