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Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Re: Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Post by mikeyouse »

cma wrote: post #36
giancarlostoro wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> now owns a giant amount of the farmland of the US too. What for though? I always hear this, but what's the point of it?

Any given year congress could pass something letting farmland owned before X date be passed to your children without taxes. I've seen lots of congressmen telling sob stories about a constituent losing the 8-figure family farm due to taxes. Gates owns the farmland personally, not in the foundation. But it could just be diversifying assets. Lots of tech billionaires buy up lots of land.

He’s donated something like $100 billion already… there’s no chance he’s buying farmland as an inheritance tax dodge.

Re: Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Post by karussell »

keeda wrote: post #49

Missed opportunity to call this a "Phil-Anthropic" partnership. The word doesn't appear once in TFA. Highly disappointed. Seeing some of the comments here speculating about ulterior motives, I'd like to say there are probably none other than the usual (goodwill, publicity, taxes, etc.) A little known aspect of the Gates Foundation finances, their problem really isn't getting more money. Their biggest problem is spend…

Bill-Anthropic ;)

Re: Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Post by dyauspitr »

tombert wrote: post #48
kridsdale1 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

Not the OP, but I suspect it's because of Bill Gates' recent scandals involving Jeffrey Epstein. Specifically with Bill Gates spiking his wife's food with antibiotics to cover up the fact that he got an STD from a Russian prostitute.

I’d much rather have someone spike my food with antibiotics than anything else.

Re: Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Post by davnicwil »

romaniv wrote: post #9
cmiles8 wrote: post #6

Is anyone keeping track of all these “partnerships” and “investments” in one place? This is all turning into a ton of what looks like PR fodder that appears to go nowhere.

Ed Zitron[1] has a lot of articles and podcast episodes on these deals. The nice thing about it is that he occasionally revisits the old announcements to check what happened with them. Apparently a lot of these deals just evaporate after prolonged contact with reality. [1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/

I think a tell that many of these deals likely aren't real and are basically just PR is the numbers are super round and digestable.

That's a clear signal that little analysis has gone into the numbers and, most generously, there's nothing but the shape of a deal the details of which will be ironed out and adjusted in practice.

I get that the amounts of funding and capital being sat on for the respective parties are collossal and lead to rounding that doesn't make sense from the point of view of an individual any more (what's a few million at this scale, just round up to nearest 10, etc) but deal sizes of literally round numbers of 100s start to stretch credibility on whether any real analysis was involved.

In fact it'd be a ridiculous coincidence if it had been. They're the kind of figures where you'd recheck your calculations to check it's right as it seems too perfectly round.

Re: Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Post by josefx »

icedchai wrote: post #17
amelius wrote: post #7

Gates missed the boat with the internet. This is not going to happen a second time!

They were a little late, but did have the dominant browser for most of the 2000's. To say they "missed the boat" is a bit much. There was a dark period from 1999 to 2004 or so where IE was basically the only usable browser.

> but did have the dominant browser for most of the 2000's.

By offering it for "free" as part of the OS. Which they could only do because they never intended to pay the developers who wrote it.

In a classic Microsoft move they fucked over their competition, their partners and the entire ecosystem for well over a decade.

Re: Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Post by tombert »

dyauspitr wrote: post #54
tombert wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the OP, but I suspect it's because of Bill Gates' recent scandals involving Jeffrey Epstein. Specifically with Bill Gates spiking his wife's food with antibiotics to cover up the fact that he got an STD from a Russian prostitute.

I’d much rather have someone spike my food with antibiotics than anything else.

I mean, sure, in the set of things that one could put into my food surreptitiously, antibiotics is one of the better ones (I guess assuming that the spiker does the full regimen). I'll acknowledge that amoxicillin is better than a roofie.

It's still unbelievably scummy to infect your partner with a disease and then drug that partner because you're too much of a coward to come forward about it. Adultery is already bad, infecting your partner because of that adultery is bad, drugging them to cover it up is bad.

Re: Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Post by goodthink »

chadash wrote: post #40
colechristensen wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And a sizable tax deduction.

IANAA, but pretty sure you can only deduct a donation against business profit. Are you suggesting that Anthropic is running at a profit?

Net Operating Losses (NOLs) in one year can offset taxes owed in future years. It works for personal taxes too if it's a "casualty" loss.
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