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Re:OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract by tim333 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:01PM (#44301945)
Which things does it mock? Tolkien served in WW1 and trained to be a code breaker in WW2. I feel he may have seen value in military technology.
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Re:OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract by jerjerjer on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:00PM (#44302612)
> I feel he may have seen value in military technology.

LOTR has fairly pronounced anti-industrial themes.

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Re:OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract by tim333 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:59PM (#44303886)
That was in a story about elves and wizards. I doubt in WW2 he thought it terrible that the UK could make Spitfires and break German cryptography.
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