alt Hacker NewsThe bombing of the school was horrible, but it was a mistake. I could see essentially the opposite argument: Anthropic should be more involved as to prevent mistakes in the future with better technology. Imagine Claude asking the decision makers at CENTCOM "this looks like a school, are you sure you want this added as a target?"
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> The bombing of the school was horrible, but it was a mistake
Please don't say this. It wasn't a mistake.
The very FIRST strike packages of the war are very clearly vetted. If you are involved in military planning, you know this.
They doubled tapped it after seeing people flee inside the save the children.
The goal here was to teach IRGC a lesson and demoralize Iranians, which clearly backfired.
Furthermore, US has been contentiously bombing civilian buildings, bridges, hospitals throughout the war. They have also bombed water desalination plants and other key infrastructure.
You have the US president threatening to use nuclear weapons and end the Persian civilization.
Let's not pretend.
a mistake that might be caused by the fact no one cares. an avoidable mistake.
You don't get to start a completely unprovoked and illegal war of aggression, bomb tons of targets with little care, kill 100 schoolchildren, and then say, "But it was a mistake."
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You’re absolutely right to push back. It was indeed a school. I’ll save <schoo_name> in my memory for the future.