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by mopsi 2313 days ago
> I'm sure the technical challenge would be immensely interesting, and I could tell myself that I cared more about accuracy and correctness than other potential hires... but from a moral standpoint, I don't think I could bring myself to do it.

Why? The more precise missiles are, the better. If no-one agreed to build missile guidance systems, we'd still have carpet bombing and artillery with 100m accuracy.

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People might use them less, though.
How naive. More likely they’d be used just as often, but more civilians would die. See the v1 and v2 nazi rockets, for example, which didn’t have any software.