Greg Kienast

@r0ck3t23 I’m not sure he understands the point, nature, and inhumanity of war.

Palmer Luckey just dismantled the moral argument against autonomous weapons in three sentences. The choice is not between weapons and no weapons. It is between dumb weapons and smart weapons. And if technology can reduce civilian deaths, refusing to use it is the moral failure. Luckey: “I don’t see the moral high ground in making, for example, an anti-vehicle landmine that can’t tell the difference between a Russian tank and a school bus full of kids.” When you refuse to deploy a system that can distinguish between a combatant and a civilian, you are not protecting humanity. You are choosing collateral damage. Keeping algorithms out of the kill chain doesn’t save lives. It costs them. But Luckey didn’t stop at the capability argument. He went straight to the accountability question. Luckey: “If I’m deploying those landmines in a place where they’re able to make a mistake, and they make a mistake, a person needs to be held accountable. And you say, did you use them appropriately? Did you trade the risks appropriately? Does this actually make sense?” The architecture of the kill chain changes. The liability does not. Autonomous systems don’t absorb responsibility. They accelerate execution. The human who authorized the deployment still owns the outcome. Every outcome. The operators who dominate the modern battlefield will scale autonomous capability aggressively while maintaining absolute human ownership over the decision to deploy it. That is the line. And it never moves. And here’s the part that makes this existential. If you demand a human in the loop for every single physical execution, you are engineering your own vulnerability. Luckey: “The answer is not to say that you cannot have an autonomous air defense system, because if you do that, all someone has to do is they break communications or break your command and control… and now your enemy can pummel you without stopping.” When the command link is jammed, the analog system goes blind. The autonomous system continues to execute. If your infrastructure cannot operate independently the microsecond the network is severed, you are not being cautious. You are being defenseless. Your adversary doesn’t need to destroy the weapon. They just need to cut the wire. The debate was never about whether machines should be trusted with life and death. It was about whether humans can afford the cost of insisting on doing it alone. They can’t.

In the 80s, quite a few people believed that sleeping with a fan could suffocate a person. I have vivid memories of this warning from a neighbor. Even to a child it sounded dumb. Dumb beliefs like the killer fan, still spread today, but with unparalleled velocity. Seek truth.

Worried about losing your job to AI? Are you more worried about losing a job or losing security? Things change around you every day. You only worry about the changes that feel like a threat. Perhaps happiness is knowing what a real threat is and isn’t. christianitytoday.com/2026/02/callin…

When we admit we were wrong and we say so (offering an apology if appropriate) it harms our ego not our reputation. When we refuse to admit we are wrong, it spares our ego at the expense of our reputation. Which is more important?

Are you at peace today? Please share that peace with someone else. A genuine smile, share a meal, it doesn’t have to be big. Pick someone who is inconsequential and go out of your way to do it. I’ll do the same, deal?

A good name is better than silver or gold. Why is this no longer taught? They’re not mutually exclusive- both are possible at the same time. A good name is something to defend at all costs, and earn always. The rest can come and go without much consequence.

A paradox: when your problems are big, make yourself smaller, humble. Quiet your mind and find the small voice. That small voice is your power to do anything. It’s in making ourselves small that we find our greatest strength. Ask the voice, that voice is Jesus—who will help.

Take care of each other.

What if we all took one opportunity to shake the hand of someone we disagree with and did it gladly. Acknowledging them, smiling at them in love? It’s easy to retreat into safety (hello safe spaces). Try: hello, man I really hope you have an awesome day. 🥹

How do you love your neighbor as yourself? It’s starts with becoming small. Become humble. But, it’s not to say “I am less.” That is not true. It is to say “you are more.”

Love your neighbor as yourself. It is that simple, and everyone has the capacity to do it.

If you have an opportunity to help someone out, you have an obligation.

Consider this: your gifts, your talents, your money and your resources are not assets, but liabilities. Because you have them, you are on the hook to do good works with them.

Consider this: Nobody owes you anything, but you owe yourself everything. You, have a debt to yourself to use everything at your disposal to live the greatest commandment which is to love your neighbor as yourself.