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pavel_lishin | 1 day ago

> We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight.

Hope is neat, but are the signatories willing to quit their jobs over this? Kind of a hollow threat if not.

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drewda|1 day ago

They put their names to their position publicly. That is meaningful action.

archydeb|1 day ago

Well, some did. I was surprised to see so many anonymous signatories.

raw_anon_1111|1 day ago

They wrote a letter. Meaningless. How many are going to quit their highly compensated jobs over it?

robwwilliams|1 day ago

Quitting their jobs? How is that the pragmatic or effective response?

dr_kretyn|1 day ago

Quitting no. Quite quitting or internal turmoil could be beneficial. Of course, in case these people meaningfully contributed in the first place otherwise it's a good pretext to fire for cause without any severance.

pavel_lishin|1 day ago

How would it be pragmatic to say, "oh well!" and continue working there?

iso1631|1 day ago

Maybe their union will call a strike

ray_v|1 day ago

Ha! Good one!

adfm|1 day ago

You don’t need a union to quiet quit or throw a shoe.