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[Riley @rhiild]

@sama Help healthcare shift from reactive treatment to proactive prevention. Help cure neurological diseases as well.

[Chris Hassel @Hassel_Chris]

Tamin and Toure were as good of a 1-2 punch at guard as any tandem in the tournament to this point.

[Jake Brend @JakeBrendTV]

How was that not a foul?

T.J. Otzelberger can't believe it.

[Riley @rhiild]

@CryptoCurb

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

This gets to the core of the issue more than any debate about specific terms.

Do you believe in democracy? Should our military be regulated by our elected leaders, or corporate executives? Seemingly innocuous terms from the latter like "You cannot target innocent civilians" are actually moral minefields that lever differences of cultural tradition into massive control.

Who is a civilian and not? What makes them innocent or not? What does it mean for them to be a "target" vs collateral damage? Existing policy and law has very clear answers for these questions, but unelected corporations managing profits and PR will often have a very different answer.

Imagine if a missile company tried to enforce the above policy, that their product cannot be used to target innocent civilians, that they can shut off access if elected leaders decide to break those terms. Sounds, good, right? Not really - in addition to the value judgement problems I list above, you also have to account for questions like:

-What level of information, classified and otherwise, does the corporation receive that would allow them to make these determinations? How much leverage would they have to demand more?
-What if an elected President merely threatens a dictator with using our weapons in a certain way, ala Madman Theory/MAD? Is the threat seen as empty because the dictator knows the corporate executives will cut off the military? Is the threat enough to trigger the cutoff? How might either of those determinations vary if the current corporate executive happens to like the dictator or dislike the President?
-At what level of confidence does the cutoff trigger, both in writing and in reality?

The fact that this is a debate over AI does not change the underlying calculus. The same problems apply to definitions and use of ethically fraught but important capabilities like surveillance systems or autonomous weapons. It is easy to say "But they will have cutouts to operate with autonomous systems for defensive use!", but you immediately get into the same issues and more - what is autonomous? What is defensive? What about defending an asset during an offensive action, or parking a carrier group off the coast of a nation that considers us to be offensive?

At the end of the day, you have to believe that the American experiment is still ongoing, that people have the right to elect and unelect the authorities making these decisions, that our imperfect constitutional republic is still good enough to run a country without outsourcing the real levers of power to billionaires and corpos and their shadow advisors. I still believe.

And that is why "bro just agree the AI won't be involved in autonomous weapons or mass surveillance why can't you agree it is so simple please bro" is an untenable position that the United States cannot possibly accept.

[Riley @rhiild]

@JakeBrendTV Unreal performance

[Jake Brend @JakeBrendTV]

If Connor Hellebuyck ever buys a beer, we’ve failed as a society.

[Chris Williams @ChrisMWilliams]

Milan is different.

[Chris Williams @ChrisMWilliams]

Milan is living on another planet right now.

[Riley @rhiild]

Cyclones are looking ELITE

[Riley @rhiild]

@JakeBrendTV How we feeling about this Jake

[Riley @rhiild]

@ChrisMWilliams F

[Wide Right & Natty Lite @WideRtNattyLt]

HAHAHAHAHHAA SOMEONE GET THAT GUY A NATTY LITE

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

President Trump has asked me to do three things:
1. Clean up the corruption in our government health agencies.
2. Return those agencies to their rich tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science.
3. Make America Healthy Again by ending the chronic disease epidemic.

[Iowa State Athletics @CycloneATH]

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[Riley @rhiild]

LETS GO!

[Riley @rhiild]

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