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I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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If one of our main adversaries is building these weapons already, this is actually an argument for developing this technology ourselves.

NO That would be an argument to build anti-drone technology, not more killbots!

War isn’t that simple

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Except that it’s sovereign.

What's sovereign - the mob? The AI company? Being enigmatic for cool points isn't conducive to productive discussion.

My take is the commenter was implying something like "Yes, like the mob, but worse, because it is done under the auspices of a national government."

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. (:

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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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...

I like the endless consideration for spying on allies. or wait...

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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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…

this is inacccurate, tesla was the first mover in china's EV market and held by far the largest market share for over a decade. obviously that was in large part to elon hiring chinese systems engineers to build out the first super factories and using chinese robotics tech. but ever since losing those key early leaders, tesla has completely fallen behind.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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To be clear, the sovereign is generally considered to be vested in Congress as representatives of the true sovereign, the people.

That’s not true at all. The people selected an executive.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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it's so funny to me that anthropic was created specifically using the virtue signaling line of defensive safety against bad actors (ie the woo woo bad guy of chinese dictatorship), yet the real danger was always coming from inside the house - your own government being an absolute evil clusterfuck.
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