[austinkhale]

Good. In the US, we should all wake up to the fact that we enjoy the lives we lead in large part to the fact that we’re able to project strength. AI will be another piece in the puzzle of national defense.

[sholladay]

One can support a strong military and still not want analysis or decision making to be overly automated. Certainly not by an LLM that could easily hallucinate that World War 3 has started.

One can also want to contribute to the military via taxes or service but not personal data. Just as one can be pro-police while also pro-fourth amendment. Respect people’s privacy or you won’t have a country worth protecting.

[John23832]

But nobody said that there is any move to overtly automated decision making.

That’s a proposal that you made.

[archagon]

Fuck if I ever work on anything that intentionally kills people. I see it as little different from shooting someone in the head, except you get to pretend that you’re squeaky clean at the end of the workday.

[squigz]

What lives exactly do you mean? Because there's nothing unique about America that plenty of other countries don't have anymore, and most of us manage to spend considerably less on defence than America.

[HaZeust]

Those countries manage to spend less on military than America, because of Pax Americana. This is a uniquely peaceful and prosperous time throughout history where there has been a liberalist unipolar political climate worldwide because of the USA, and dozens of countries have taken advantage of the fruits of America's defense labor - while chipping in little for themselves, and others, in return. America has had the strength and posture to hold the entire Western world on its behalf, and did so.

Europe is re-arming, one of the two leading candidates for this election cycle are Anti-NATO. Expect this generations-old luxury for other western countries beyond America to soon change.