Former CEO of Google has been quietly working on a military startup for “suicide” attack drones.::The former Google CEO has been quietly working on a military startup called White Stork with plans to design “kamikaze” attack drones.

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    10 months ago

    Don’t these already exist? Ukraine has been using suicide drones to destroy tanks and other equipment for a couple years now.

    Edit: I remember an anecdote as well that ISIS was hand building suicide drones as well whenever the hell that was.

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    10 months ago

    Remember, Eric Schmidt took Google public with the famous “Don’t be Evil” manifesto.

    Now he makes murder bots.

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      10 months ago

      There are company lines/slogans and then there are company action.

      First one comes from PR and second is dictated by cold hard cash. Guess which one bends if there is a conflict?

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      10 months ago

      Making weapons is not evil. Unfortunately, we live in a world where nations start wars. You need to be able to protect yourself and your allies

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        10 months ago

        I disagree - it’s evil. I’m not saying we don’t need military and weapons but I’d say that if from all possibile ways of approaching this is making suicide drones is kinda evil.

        Imagine having all this status, money and arguably some real skill you choose to make weapons instead of any other alternative. That’s incredibly sad.

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          10 months ago

          Defending yourself is not evil. What’s happening in Ukraine is evil, because the US did not supply enough arms

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            10 months ago

            Small minded point of view. Imagine if those billions were spend productively to unite people rather than defence. I’m not saying no defence is necessary I’m just saying the other side is infinitely more efficient. We attribute diplomacy to one of the greatest human inventions not because it’s more ethical (it is) but because it literally allowed us to prosper to the point where we can sustain 7 billion people with objectively great lives for the most part.

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              10 months ago

              That didn’t get 155mm arty rounds to Ukraine.

              No amount of money can bring back people dying to Russian bombs.

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      10 months ago

      Yes, but ones that his company makes and he gets to profit from. It is the classic “tech bro” play. Come to market with some overly complex solution to a problem that has been solved to most peoples satisfaction for decades, claim you are disrupting a stale market that is not meeting the needs of the consumer, ignore any and all existing rules and regulations so you can undercut the existing competition, then bitch when those rules and regulations catch up after you have driven out the existing competition and made obscene profits.

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    10 months ago

    Imagine having an obscene amount of money for the rest of your life, and the thing you decide to do is to invent more devices and methods to kill people.

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      10 months ago

      Imagine a world where US already had this tech and gave it to Ukraine to protect itself.

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      10 months ago

      Because they’re not good people.

      I think we try to analyze stuff and always give benefit of doubt because life’s weird but some people are just bad - Occam’s razor and everything.

      I recently watched a great video on how drug dealers who deal Tranq justify selling dangerous drugs (by Channel 5 on yt) and the host had a great monolog on how many of these people create these fake realities to justify that “their just a cog in the machine” and have no choice and obviously this is a spectrum of sorts. But this mega rich cunt has all of the choices. Literally. So, it’s evil. No excuse.