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You don't think it's a topic worth talking about, given that we're shifting more and more decisions onto algorithms?

It makes me scared to think that the government has to be trying to develop algorithms to give advice to people higher up on the military branch about the decisions they should make like in eagle eye.

Who doesn't love plausible deniability?

You don't even have to rely on the failed excuse of "just following orders" if you lose, you don't even have to admit that you "didn't know what you didn't know":

The machine inferred the wrong thing based on nobody's orders, and carried it out despite our wishes. The damn jalopy!

This topic has been posted here dozens of times before, and the discussion has not made any progress. The phrase 'beating a dead horse' comes to mind.

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