Google not renewing their DoD contract is the cheapest easy win I can possibly think of and it's being massively overstated.
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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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Can anything be done to stop that?
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