I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don’t think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.

  • thesmokingman@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    Fantastic! She was a huge part of the military-industrial complex in computing and her entire work has to be viewed through that lens. While her contributions to the field are numerous and incredibly meaningful, she also wanted to help the military develop machine intelligence and is every explicit way connected to modern conflicts where military misuses AI to murder children.

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      5 months ago

      If you’re serious, please elaborate on your points. I genuinely don’t understand.

      Going by Wikipedia here,

      She was a huge part

      Please define huge part. She was a “key architect” in the starting years of a project that fell short of its goals.

      her entire work has to be viewed through that lens

      Why? It was, relatively speaking, an almost small part of her career. She didn’t stay until the end of the project. You even admit that her contributions to the field were many and meaningful.

      is every explicit way connected to modern conflicts where military misuses AI to murder children

      This feels like such a huge leap, that I don’t even know where to begin tackling it. Is Tim Berners Lee in every explicit way connected to the modern privacy hellscape that is the modern internet?

      Make no mistake, if she really did want to help develop artificial intelligence for the military’s sake, fuck her. I can respect someone’s achievements while also thinking they’re trash as a person.

      But I don’t think that’s the case here, and I’m lost as to what point, exactly, you’re trying to make.