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Good! I'm tired of all of the SV companies presupposing that government work must be unethical. Even if the work is for weapons, having the largest advantage possible will prevent or shorten wars and save lives. Do you want your sons and daughters to fight a fair fight?

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> Do you want your sons and daughters to fight a fair fight?

I don’t want them to fight at all.

But more importantly, I don’t want anyone friend or “foe” to die from faulty AI decisions.

I can sort of reconcile some human bomber pilot making a mistake and hitting a family home, but if AI does the same thing it’s just wrong.

> I don’t want them to fight at all.

Me either.

> I don’t want anyone friend or “foe” to die from faulty AI decisions.

Me either. I'm going to assume they'll do more than 5 minutes of homework on AI

Nobody wants to fight. Like the op said, it's the presupposition that "ofc they're sociopaths, of course they want pain, death, and suffering"

You dont have the monopoly on abhorring human suffering. It's been decided US policy since Bush to deter rather than defeat US enemies and as much as you hem and haw about the word enemy, they do consider themselves enemies of the US.

Of course they don’t “want” pain, death and suffering, because nobody will admit that to himself.

Sometimes the ends just justify the means. Like how it’s fine to kill 100k people in some desert on the other side of the world to potentially prevent a few deaths on your side.

I'm reminded of the Itchy and Scratchy clip where they each pull out bigger and bigger guns on each other, until finally the earth explodes.

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