but this shouldn't be a defence of the military, why was it develop under a military and not a civilian contract?
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For many reasons, the most simple being that the most advanced aerospace research labs in the world are attached to USAF or NASA.
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I hope you don't think I'm trying to fight you. I know there is a complex system and history involved, I'm saying it's time this stopped.
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I've been on the other side of this argument, I've never worked for the military, but I've defended researchers who had, I can't anymore.
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not defending them going forward is not the same as retroactively debasing what they did under the only way they could.
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i designed algorithms to differentiate humans floating in the sea from flotsam under a Navy contract. That would save refugees.
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The US military needs to be abolished. But the reality of the modern world is it is also the repository for funding research.
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And while that money *could* and *should* be invested through actual science agencies, the reality is it was not.
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And the only way to develop that tech was through military contracting. So that needs to change but it doesn't invalidate that work.
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