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Wow, this guy has a war fetish. Makes the ideas and intent behind OR and its subsequent sale to FB all the more questionable. Sick, sick world.

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I mean, I get your sentiment, but what's the alternative?

So far, this tech seems to be recon + defense oriented and not straight up slaughterbot killer drones etc.

If we aren't building it, someone else will - and I'd rather us have this than China etc. or some other authoritarian government.

Yup. I was pretty sad when I found out he was a right winger.

Really? You would rather the guy building it was associated with CCP?

(Not the person your replying to, but) No, I don't wish the guy building it was associated with the CCP, but given what happens to US military hardware these days—it ends up in the hands of the police, who use it against US citizens—this isn't all that much better.

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