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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by maroonblazer on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:15PM (#16761499)
Who can project force like the U.S. military? No one. For the most part it's used to enable people to have more say in how they're governed, modulo certain constraints. That's not to say we do it perfectly but we shouldn't underestimate how positively influential that military power is.
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by smsm42 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:25AM (#16762327)
In USSR, before it collapsed, young people dreamt of having jeans (not everybody could get or afford them), listened to Western music and watched Western movies. Not because US army has secretly occupied USSR, but because Western culture was more attractive to them. Not everything is done with the military.
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by maroonblazer on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:18AM (#16764586)
>Not everything is done with the military.

I'm not claiming it is, nor am I arguing that culture isn't also a factor. I'm saying that military presence shouldn't be discounted, as the parent seemed to be doing.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by pteredactyl on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:10AM (#16761692)
Agreed. And it's a position that I don't think many people realize.
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