Google is not a defense contractor. Google was never positioned to greatly profit from defense contracts. Google was even more poorly positioned to actually build meaningful defense products.
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Have you ever done defense contracting? I have. I don't know a single Google engineer that wouldn't try to strangle you if you told them, "ok you're going to be using Subversion, Trac, and Java 1.4 and we're sequestering you on this project for the next 2 years."
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Google has no meaningful experience doing military system integration. No meaningful experience deploying systems to "augment warfighter effectiveness."
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The amount of money they stood to make was negligible. They make FAR more money selling ads to military recruiters.
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Kicking google out of the automation space is next to meaningless because there are 35 contractors that will just go import tensorflow and make the same money. Google didn't make an ethics statement here.
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Agreed being on it being overstated. But I think part of it is because, for a bunch of us, it feels like a victory, after months of fighting against it?
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Definitely, and not without tremendous cost, either
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maybe the bigger win is the good example it sets for the public and other tech workers :)
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“Don’t be evil anymore*” * in the future, kind of, if your standards are impossibly low.
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