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Re:Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work... by krageon on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:55AM (#17205322)
A company has only one feedback point in the long run (people leave or die over that timeframe, so you can only count on the lowest common denominator there) and that is money. If that doesn't tell you something about a company's core motivation, then I'm afraid I can't make clear to you why counting on anything but economic incentives as motivation for a company's actions is naive at best.
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Re:Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work... by AmericanChopper on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:25PM (#17210505)
You’re argument is that every company _must_ be involved in corruption and law breaking, simply because there is profit to be found in doing so. This isn’t simply naive, it has no basis in reality whatsoever.
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Re:Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work... by krageon on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:51AM (#17225477)
I have literally never encountered a large company that doesn't have good tax deals in some country or other. Good in the order of "pays basically no taxes". What do you want to call that? "Just good business"?
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