[lambdaone]

It's not a foregone conclusion. We have managed to ban chemical weapons. laser blinding weapons and biological weapons on a global scale. If there was sufficient will to do so, we could do this for autonomous weapons as well.

The argument that "bad people will do X", so we must do X to them first, is a race to the bottom.

This article is, however, very revealing about what Palantir wants to happen, without ever mentioning the profit motive.

[mewpmewp2]

Some types of tech are easier to ban. But some type of reesearch is near impossible to ban and verify that no one is actually working on it.

[ThrowawayR2]

> "We have managed to ban chemical weapons. laser blinding weapons and biological weapons on a global scale."

Bret Deveraux made a very compelling case that those bans only happened because those weapons were largely ineffective: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...

[anon291]

We just had a pandemic whose cause is plausibly linked to bioweapons research. No one can possibly make the statement that we've managed to ban bio weapons in good faith.

[brokenmachine]

I know we're all quite literally sick of it, but the pandemic is still going.

Covid keeps killing more people every month than flu does in a year.

[anon291]

People die. Not going to hide inside my house or really care all that much. I mean... I'm sorry if you lost someone, we all did. People getting sick is no reason to suspend daily life.

[brokenmachine]

The main thing that I learned over these four years is that an insane percentage of people are unbelievably selfish.