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The author addressed this from a slightly different perspective under the question "The military can use your research anyway, from the open literature. Why not have them pay for it?".

His thoughts basically boil down to a combination of not working on overtly militaristic applications, not approaching the research from the angle of how it can help the military, and certainly not accepting military money even if it seems unrelated.

He acknowledges that his work may be beneficial to the military:

> Do work that makes the world a better place. The fact that the military becomes better too is not a problem.

By my reading, he is satisfied that he is not responsible for the militarization of his research. His research may indeed be misused, but that's an unavoidable in virtually every field and the buck stops at whoever weaponizes it.