alt Hacker News> paying attention the existence of Raytheon is inherently unethical
Lets do assume this is true, then again, wouldn't Raytheon be the best place to actually have a ethics department, if anyone?
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budman1 • yesterday at 10:09 PM
The ethics department at Raytheon is focused on questions like "Is it OK to give a bribe to the president if we call it a donation to the ballroom?"
They don't have anything to do about using the products they sell. Neither does Boeing, or Lockheed, or Tesla, or SpaceX.
twister2920 • yesterday at 7:47 PM
only if you assume that the ethics department at Raytheon has absolute power over which contracts Raytheon takes and what kinds of products it produces. which is plainly absurd.
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There is no value in merely having a position with no power, that only exists to make the organization look good. Do you think a vegan is most effective at a slaughterhouse, given that they'd undermine their employers revenue if they were given a modicum of power. Google's AI ethics team was steamrolled by this reality.