2025-12-14 08:19 UTC
@KFears@mstdn.games For example in my lab (in a public research institution), nobody is fascist, but most people are working on fun and interesting things (like autonomous drone flocks driven by AI) for which I can't imagine any other realistic application that the military (the usual apology is "saving people in earthquakes" but firefighters are not as rich as armies). All that is because of how budgets are allocated and how we're force to collaborate with private sector for funding.
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@KFears@mstdn.games 2025-12-14 08:41
@tuxmain@toot.aquilenet.fr Sigh, yeah, that happens a lot. Ultimately, it is a systematic problem: with how resources are allocated and how people are forced to work to not starve, the game is rigged. Still, though, not thinking of what your labor and effort is used for is a privilege - and a choice. There's a comparison made by someone during Framework fallout, and it was stuck with me since. It compared the excitement and energy many engineers display without thinking about the application to wanting to build the best possible trains in 1940s.