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birdsongsyesterday at 4:47 PM3 repliesview on HN

Replying to myself: how long before one of these with the neuron count of a corvid and trained on pattern recognition gets plugged into a drone?

This is a very dark path, and I could not trust the people in charge less.


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perching_aixyesterday at 9:31 PM

In a sense humanity has already done that, just with a lot more of the given animal intact and less hi-tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

Not an endorsement or a condemnation, just something I learned of recently and found surprising.

DrewADesignyesterday at 4:59 PM

I’m kind of sick of how readily the non-managerial tech world accepts “what happens is someone else does this immoral thing before us?!” rhetoric as a real answer to questioning whether or not we should contribute our talent and ideas to something that we, deep down, know is bad for fellow humans.

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Chris2048yesterday at 5:00 PM

Why is that the concern of the authors of this paper?

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