“I have seen EAs circulate half-baked fears of suicide drones making it easy to murder people (just carry a tennis racket, or allow municipalities to track or ban drone flights if they so choose) or assassinate political leaders (they already speak behind bullet-resistant plexiglass sometimes, this is not a problem)”—Really not that easy. A tennis racket? Not like banning drones stops someone flying a drone from somewhere else. And political leaders sure you can speak behind the glass, but are you going to spend your whole life behind a screen?
Maybe EA should grow more, but I don’t think that the issue is that we are “not ruthless enough”. Instead I’d argue that meta is currently undervalued, at least in terms of donations.
Yes, the “slaughterbots” video produced by Stuart Russell and FLI presented a dystopian scenario about drones that could be swatted down with tennis rackets. Because the idea is that they would plaster to your head with an explosive.
Not like banning drones stops someone flying a drone from somewhere else.
Yes, but it means that on the rare occasion that you see a drone, you know it’s up to no good and then you will readily evade or shoot it down.
And political leaders sure you can speak behind the glass, but are you going to spend your whole life behind a screen?
No… but so what? I don’t travel in an armored limousine either. If someone really wants to kill me, they can.
More donations for movement growth: I would tentatively agree.
“I have seen EAs circulate half-baked fears of suicide drones making it easy to murder people (just carry a tennis racket, or allow municipalities to track or ban drone flights if they so choose) or assassinate political leaders (they already speak behind bullet-resistant plexiglass sometimes, this is not a problem)”—Really not that easy. A tennis racket? Not like banning drones stops someone flying a drone from somewhere else. And political leaders sure you can speak behind the glass, but are you going to spend your whole life behind a screen?
Maybe EA should grow more, but I don’t think that the issue is that we are “not ruthless enough”. Instead I’d argue that meta is currently undervalued, at least in terms of donations.
Yes, the “slaughterbots” video produced by Stuart Russell and FLI presented a dystopian scenario about drones that could be swatted down with tennis rackets. Because the idea is that they would plaster to your head with an explosive.
Yes, but it means that on the rare occasion that you see a drone, you know it’s up to no good and then you will readily evade or shoot it down.
No… but so what? I don’t travel in an armored limousine either. If someone really wants to kill me, they can.
More donations for movement growth: I would tentatively agree.