alt Hacker NewsIt is honorable but ultimately hasn’t democracy spoken wrt the issues mentioned in the post?
For better or worse millions of Americans voted for the guy doing the deportations.
I also find it difficult to reconcile not using AI for weapons. If war is inevitable AI presumably would at least ensure you are on target.
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Agreed, I feel like the people who say no to AI weapons haven't actually presented a real argument (that I have heard) besides terminator bad
AI helps people scale. If being "on target" means that you find people when they're eating dinner so you can kill their entire family, then using AI to scale that up is a terrible thing. That's exactly what Israel did with Lavender. They literally had a kill list called "Where's daddy?".
> For better or worse millions of Americans voted for the guy doing the deportations.
Uh, the idea of democracy is not that voting reveals universal preferences or something. It is ok to disagree with whoever gets elected, and continue working towards an alternative you believe to be better. In fact, democracy depends on that; otherwise, why not have a single election with no term limits? There is supposed to be ongoing difference of opinion.
> I also find it difficult to reconcile not using AI for weapons.
You can't reduce "AI for autonomous lethal weapons" to "AI for weapons".
This idea that once a party gain a little more votes, people who oppose it should cease to exist and cease push for own values ... somehow applies only to the right.
When center or left wins, somehow, magically, same logic dont apply.
It does appear to be anti-democratic given everyone knew Trump’s platform when he was voted in. However the great unifying fact of politics is that everyone only really believes in democracy when they win.
When folks who live around me vote for things I find unethical, then I don't feel bound by those decisions.
Also, your position on weapons development is premised on the idea that at lease some of the folks developing the weapons are on your side and always will be.
That might not be true at all.