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Dr. Jens Foell Retweeted New Scientist
Did... did a killer robot write thishttps://twitter.com/newscientist/status/928473321401970688 …
Dr. Jens Foell added,
Chills me to the bone. Sure, let's call this progress, killing as an abstraction where we don't feel the weight of each life taken.
This has been a very long time coming. The computer science that underpins this was being done even when I was in undergrad by my peers who went to work from, e.g., BAE. "I work with robots to kill people" was a very commonly said phrase, often with more jocular remarks appended.
Also relevant to note the ethics we did was pretty much nil with respect to actually talking through scenaria and opinions, or highlighting on how most CS depts are funded by MoD or related companies. Indeed there was a course called computer ethics, but it was 90% ass-covering.
so fucked up. makes me simply furious that the taking of lives is treated so dismissively. I really hope our species survives our protracted adolescence, but when I read stuff like this, I almost lose hope.
I actually don't care if we perish. A lot of us are kind of bad people. 
maybe, but most of us by far don't start off that way. raising a boy has taught me (and teaches me every day!) how much how we raise our children matters to the kind of people they will become.
I actually would place the world ending in the next 100 years as as high as when it nearly ended all those times during the Cold War and just blind luck/people ignoring machines stopped things. It doesn't really bother me. That doesn't mean I want it to end, but what am I to do?
I try my best and argue my points and even then people accuse me of various awful things inclusive of being only interested in myself. I'm not complacent but I believe we're in a dark place.
we are in a dark place, the selfishness I see around me daily is heartbreaking, especially when opportunities for kindness, compassion and collaboration are so effortless, but I can't live focusing only on darkness. There is also light, and I see those examples daily too.
I am privileged enough to now after many years be surrounded by truly supportive people. It's an important privilege that I try not to take for granted. I actually see very nice people often everywhere in London. I'm honoured and lucky. But I know the world isn't all nice people.
Landlords, for example, are scum in London. 
sweetie, that's a universal constant. lawyers and landlords, a selective apocalypse would not upset me too much
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