I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
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#892Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
#893It almost is parody that a former Fox News host is the SECRETARY OF WAR.
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#894How many layers deep does this go? Does Microsoft using Claude to develop their Word products mean the US government has to switch to linux?
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#895Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that it’s sovereign.
What's sovereign - the mob? The AI company? Being enigmatic for cool points isn't conducive to productive discussion.
I got the meaning right away, but I can appreciate if others didn't. I didn't read it as intentionally enigmatic, fwiw. Sometimes short punchy comments really land, sometimes not -- it is a risk. As you can probably tell, I err in the other direction. (:
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#896Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
#897Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn't about commercial agreements, it's about patriotism. The national industry is supposed to submit to the military's wishes to the extent that they get compensated. Here it's a question or virtue. The Pentagon feels it isn't Anthropic to set boundaries as to how their tech is used (for defense) since it can't force its will, then it bans doing business with them.
If anthropic is saying “you can use our models for anything other than domestic spying or autonomous weapons” and the pentagon replies “we will use other models then”, I'd say Anthropic are the patriots here...
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#898Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dont forget Nvidia technology was condsidered too sensitive to be exported to China....until the Trump administration decided they could export it if they paid a 10% export tax.
The part of this you're missing is that China doesn't want it [1]. Why? Because China will make their own. This has been obvious to me for at least 1-2 years. The US doesn't allow EUV lithography machines from ASML to be exported to China either. I believe the previous export ban on the most advanced chip was a strategic error because it created a captive market of Chinese customers for Chinese chips. China will repl…