A long time ago I found out through a bug report that some OSS code I wrote was being used in a guided missile system. It made me sick to my stomach, I lost sleep over it, I still think of it often. But I don't think use restrictions are workable ...https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1175520676557377536 …
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Not sure it helps but I'd just point out there's more evil to the world than just the military. Somewhere out there, there's a fleet of EC2s doing the banal accounting of human trafficking, opioid addicts, etc., and I wonder sometimes how much that keeps people up at night.
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All tool makers face that, and every energy provider, or every food farmer, and every service provider, including doctors, teachers. The most recent season of The Good Place had interesting reflections on this; being ethical can't mean that kind of unachievable purism.
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When one considers that whole computer industry is based on improvements over artillery calculation systems...

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My students are sometimes shocked when I tell them what differences were being calculated on those early differential calculators...
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