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Hazey | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It is reality that those public facing companies have secret military and intelligence contracts to build advanced tech (satellites, spy equipment, rockets, AI) ultimately aimed at improving the efficiency of killing people.
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matta | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I’d like to believe that Elon has more integrity and empathy for humans… but even if he does, all his tech could be subverted by governments for evil
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Gojiberra | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 so what do we do? fund technology that can be subverted or allow governments to fund it? maybe on a Bitcoin standard the funding from the government would dry up and the boards of directors and investors' vote would have a limiting effect on the abuse of tech?