MK Ultra and Artichoke are fucked up. Not to be repeated as far as methodology goes.
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gapbetweenus@feddit.de 10 months agoI think it’s reasonable for military to try out any new technology if it has any benefits. I mean we tried out if LSD would make better soilders - LLM for simulations seems not that farfatched.
BuryMyHorse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 10 months ago
What do you mean? Military found out that those things are rather useless - that’s something. Also good to know. In 50 years or so we will learn what fucked up things military is doing now.
The only way to prevent such things is drastically cut military budget.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What would be more useful for the military? An AI that can make less crappy decisions or successfully finishing project Stargate and getting psychic troopers who can see the future, among other things?
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 10 months ago
But what if you had all the money in the world? Basic US military.
Jtotheb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be clear, just because the LSD experiments happened does not make them reasonable. It sounds like you’re justifying future terrible mistakes based on past terrible mistakes that you learn about in a fairly neutral and sanitized way in school.
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 10 months ago
No, military will just try out everything if there is a slightest possibility of benefit in war. If you have the resources why wouldn’t you? There are literally no downsides.