my favorite part of Oppenheimer is where a whole new generation of technologists asks 'wait, are we the baddies' and then goes back to work
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i've talked with people frankly about stuff like this and almost everyone realizes that they're basically the baddies or working for them, but the overriding reality of "what can you do" necessitates ignoring that fact to continue surviving
that's just my personal experience right. i don't know if it's heartening or frustrating that everyone sees that the entire system is deeply fucked. at least it's normal enough to talk about it now
right, I guess it's unclear if you don't know more Manhattan Project history. but most of them eventually knew what they were creating meant, and dreaded it.
But until that heavy water plant was confirmed destroyed, they (probably correctly) thought the Nazis would get there first if they didn't, and at least here they had the perception of sway for the project, and went back to work.
it's not like anywhere you could go wasnt for the war, you knew too much about the industry for them to let you just go wherever, and even if you didn't, you couldn't talk about your resume gap.
it's an evergreen n-tuple bind
making NDAs and noncompetes illegal helps until they're legal again tho, at least