Comment by seizethecheese
6 days ago
Maybe I shouldn’t take the bait here…
Yes, military power is evil, but it’s a necessary evil. A society that decides to stop making weapons is going to be subjugated by one that continues to make them. Full stop.
6 days ago
Maybe I shouldn’t take the bait here…
Yes, military power is evil, but it’s a necessary evil. A society that decides to stop making weapons is going to be subjugated by one that continues to make them. Full stop.
The US Department of Peace has also been outright murdering civilians aboard vessels in international waters, including double tap strikes intended to murder the wounded.
It's not the bait on HN that you need to be worried about but the propaganda from your own government.
My comment here is about the ethics of military weapons vs assassinations of private individuals. I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Nothing about the US Department of War's actions over the last 2 years, whose contracts Sam eagerly pursued to weaponize AI, has had to do with "preventing being subjugated". What they did do was bomb 150 or so private individual school girls.
You're saying the above is bait, when your own comment is nothing but it.
>Nothing about the US Department of War's actions over the last 2 years
Questionable and violent US foreign policy is much much older than the current Trump administration.
Pasting the same reply as you sibling comment:
My comment here is about the ethics of military weapons vs assassinations of private individuals. I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Then your comment is completely irrelevant to the conversation as a reply to
> Sam eagerly pursued DoD contracts to weaponize AI. And then lobbied for legislation to ensure OpenAI cannot be held accountable if people are killed due to their systems.".
Your comment can't both A. be relevant as a reply to the above B. yet have "no idea what I'm talking about", as if it is not relevant. Either both of us are saying something relevant, or neither of us are. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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No such thing as a "necessary evil", a pure oxymoron.
Why would that be the case?
In what world is this kind of things a necessary evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27état , I'm not convinced that any of the large scale interventionist conflict the US got involved into after WWII had a positive outcome. Senseless foreign inference and cruelty didn't just come about with the Trump admin.
So should we really applaud selling shiny new toys that will enable more baseless cruelty? Probably not. Just like we shouldn't support political terrorism.