[HN Gopher] Google Wants to Work with The Pentagon Again, Despit...
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       Google Wants to Work with The Pentagon Again, Despite Employee
       Concerns
        
       Author : jaredwiener
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2021-11-03 18:44 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | yosito wrote:
       | Interesting that someone can lack so much moral sense that they
       | choose to work at Google, yet claim enough moral sense to object
       | to working with the Pentagon.
        
         | rightbyte wrote:
         | Ye. I mean it is fine if they are pacifists but I guess most
         | are not. If they think that way about their own country's armed
         | forces, why are they even paying tax?
        
       | amatwl wrote:
       | Good. To be honest, if the tech companies (i.e. MSFT, Google,
       | Amazon, etc.) ever decided to fully compete with defense
       | contractors, like Boeing, LM, Northrup Grumman, etc., they could
       | clean up easily. There are plenty of defense contracts that don't
       | require you building bombs or munitions.
        
         | sterlind wrote:
         | For instance:
         | 
         | * Search - XKeyscore is so '00s! Using the infrastructure
         | developed for Dragonfly, Google could build an on-premisis
         | instance of search for the NSA's bulk collection archives.
         | 
         | * Quantum could finally become lucrative with proper funding to
         | make Shor's algorithm practical.
         | 
         | * Speech recognition to automatically transcribe phone calls in
         | bulk with high accuracy. They just need to sell the model,
         | really.
         | 
         | * Deepmind could leverage computer vision to identify drone
         | strike targets.. oh wait.
         | 
         | I support IC and acknowledge how necessary good intelligence
         | and a credible military are, but it's terrifying what uses
         | Google's tech could be put towards. It's like an alternate
         | universe where privatized nuclear power showed up first, then
         | came spooky contracts for atomic bombs.
        
       | peakaboo wrote:
       | Is this supposed to give the public the impression Google is
       | currently not working with the US security services? .
        
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