4 pointsby doener4 hours ago3 comments
  • vadelfe3 hours ago
    I think the real question is trust. Once a company starts working with the Pentagon, people will naturally assume the capabilities will expand over time. Even if today’s contract has limits, those limits can always change later.
    • salawat3 hours ago
      It has been proven and blessed by SCOTUS that an email and continued use is sufficient cause to derive implied consent. Contracts are now essentially pointless in their one sidedness. Anyone pointing to contractual limitations as justification of their position to a third party should find that third party looking them dead in the eye and pointing out all it would take for the justifier to be "right" in this circumstance is changing your TOS long enough to prove your point to me, sending an email that will never be read, then as soon as I'm gone changing the terms back to whatever else and sending another email. By de-frictioning contract law to enable click-wrap and EULA, we've completely undermined the semantic intent of the mechanism; which was to be a durable statement of an agreement between two parties that both agree to be bound to. When there is no binding on the originating party from changing the terms, there is no assurance to anyone else the terms don't change from second to second to the benefit of the originator of the contract.

      Sometimes, the friction is the feature.

  • sbcorvus3 hours ago
    How much of that do you think is meant for PR vs. actual protection against mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapon kill orders having a person in the loop?
    • doener3 hours ago
      Of course just guessing here on the ground of how I see Altman‘s behavior until now: I think 99% PR.
  • yacin3 hours ago
    huh more people are cancelling than I expected then!