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It genuinely does suck and is *bad* that it feels like there’s almost nowhere to go for people who 1. Want to work on robotics (like drones) and 2. Don’t want to build weapons.

Drones and other robots do have a huge number of civilian and society-benefiting uses. We need ways for talented people to be able to work on those applications, without having to compromise their morals to build weapons for ICE (and similar malignant buyers).

Everybody talking about Boston Dynamics being in the military robot business is certainly not wrong but might be surprised by the degree to which that is the only robot business there is in this country

It has, like, ALMOST not been the case in robots a few times, but Amazon eating the whole warehouse business, farm robots being badly positioned, the existence of China, etc. it’s hard! I had to push reeeeeaaaally hard to keep our computer vision business on the “mostly not evil” side of the ledger

Which, you know, there is a way to take my point in a more unabomber-y direction, but.