The things they're looking to do can easily be used in offensive ways as well. Plus, we know from the Manhattan project that in hindsight many of the participants wished they hadn't done what they've done. Not that I think that this project is similarly large in scope, but the basic context of "don't work on warfare tech, even if it currently seems important" stands. I'm sure there are people disagreeing, otherwise no one would work in that sector or join the military. But I think there's a lot of people who are looking for ways to help Ukraine w/o realizing that work like this might have consequences beyond the current conflict. If you're building a weapon that your military uses to fight the enemy, then that has less possibilities for misuse (provided you trust your military) than if you develop a software to track humans in satellite images in real time and put it out there in the world for good and bad actors to use, alike.

(Also, "Your argument is childish, but I won't elaborate and you're a stoner" is middle school argument, too, hereComeThatGurl420)

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