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Yeah. I’m not a fan of any if this, but nobody cares when you say ‘dont be evil¹’; not being pointlessly recklessly evil isn’t a serious grown-up policy. better to do a political Tesla valve; introduce competing contradictory evil, dilute the propaganda, and arrest momemtym
you say that, but if that was the case why would ibm go to all that trouble to get an exclusion from the json user agreement clause “the software shall be used for good, not evil”?
No like i don’t think they’re still competent enough. Morally, sure, thry could be that evil.
If, say, Denver needed that database, they’d do it before the check cleared.
I dont think they could do it for a large country.
They would want to, they would take the contract, ans it would hire so many subcontractors cut so many corners the end product would be unrecognizable.
fair enough. i just know ibm is a big actor with many european governments as well, more so than the others. probably by virtue of having been around a lot longer.
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Yeah. I’m not a fan of any if this, but nobody cares when you say ‘dont be evil¹’; not being pointlessly recklessly evil isn’t a serious grown-up policy. better to do a political Tesla valve; introduce competing contradictory evil, dilute the propaganda, and arrest momemtym
¹except HUAC. HUAC cares.
you say that, but if that was the case why would ibm go to all that trouble to get an exclusion from the json user agreement clause “the software shall be used for good, not evil”?
Yeah they did the 30s/40s equivalent, but I don’t think they still have the functional capacity to work at that scale.
they probably do, just that we don’t get to hear about it until a couple of years have passed.
No like i don’t think they’re still competent enough. Morally, sure, thry could be that evil.
If, say, Denver needed that database, they’d do it before the check cleared.
I dont think they could do it for a large country.
They would want to, they would take the contract, ans it would hire so many subcontractors cut so many corners the end product would be unrecognizable.
i mean
Edit: sorry, reuters seems to be stripping stuff off of the link. the quote i linked to is
It takes all of them plus the Zionist state, for something smaller than California.
fair enough. i just know ibm is a big actor with many european governments as well, more so than the others. probably by virtue of having been around a lot longer.
And certain preexisting relationships.