Tech Moralists Write Another Fucking Letter Nobody Asked For
Oh for fuck’s sake. Look what crawled out of the bean bag chairs this week. A bunch of precious little snowflakes at Google and OpenAI—the same wankers who spend their days optimizing ad targeting for toenail fungus creams and auto-generating deepfake porn—have decided to grow a conscience. They’ve written an open letter supporting Anthropic’s “brave” stance against working with the Pentagon. How fucking noble. I’m sure the DoD is collectively shitting itself.
Let me get this straight. You take the blood money from the same military-industrial complex that pays for your kombucha taps and standing desks, but now you want to pretend you’re Mahatma fucking Gandhi because Anthropic said “no tanks, thanks” to the Department of Defense? Anthropic is funded by Amazon and Google, you absolute tools—these aren’t monks, they’re venture capitalists with better haircuts. Your entire industry exists to strip-mine human attention and sell it to the highest bidder, but suddenly you’re drawing the line at camouflage patterns?
The Pentagon doesn’t give a flying fuck about your strongly worded GitHub commit message or how many karma points you got on r/EffectiveAltruism. They’ve got Palantir. They’ve got Anduril. They’ve got a thousand other defense contractors who don’t need smelling salts every time someone mentions “lethal autonomous weapons.” Your letter isn’t stopping a single drone strike, but it sure looks great on your LinkedIn profile while you help your actual employer build the surveillance infrastructure of a dystopian hellscape.
Here’s a pro tip from someone who actually understands how the world works: if you don’t want to build war machines, maybe don’t work for companies that exist to extract every last byte of human behavior for profit. But no, keep signing petitions between your mindfulness sessions and diversity workshops. I’m sure the Joint Chiefs are trembling in their boots while they cash checks written by the same VCs who fund your “ethical” AI research.
Reminds me of the time a user tried to “ethically object” to me deleting their home directory after they spilled lukewarm soy latte on the mail server. “But my family photos!” they whined. I explained that morality is relative, but backups are absolute—and since they hadn’t made any, their ethical stance was about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Then I introduced them to the server room’s “accidental” 440-volt handshake. They stopped writing letters after that. Pity, really. I was enjoying the entertainment.
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