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I think it would count as a (very) small element of that.
Any single element of dictatorial rule is dictatorial rule. There is no space for any amount of that bullshit, regardless of how inane seeming it is. A) Boundary testing. Small bites end up being large portions after enough are taken. B) If I shit in 10 gallons of chocolate pudding, would you want to eat a bite of that pudding?
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I know that some things like this are accepted in America Not really. Everything you said about contracts above applies to contracts in America last time I checked. Disclaimer: IANAL, my legal training amounts of 1 semester of "Business Law" in college.
In theory yes, but you also have this stuff where people agree to get medical treatment and the price isn't specified. This would be a non-contract in Swedish law, for example.
No judgement here, but a US-based corporation refusing services to the US Government? While the terms of service are what they are, the US Government can withdraw its military contracts from Anthropic (or refuse future contracts if they don't have any so far). Or softly suggest to its own contractors to limit their business dealings with Anthropic. Then Anthropic will have hard time securing computing from NVIDIA, AW…
I am of an age where I read comments like this with my mouth agape. It is (was) perfectly normal to choose whether or not to do business with the government.
Wasn't a big part of AI 2027 that government employees became overly reliant on AI and couldn't function without it. So guess we are still on track to hit that timeline.
I do love the smell of hypocrisy early in the morning.
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This whole article is weird to me. This reads to me like: * Some employee somewhere wanted to click the shiny Claude button in the AWS FedRamp marketplace * Whatever USG legal team were involved said "that domestic surveillance clause doesn't work for us" and tried to redline it. * Anthropic rejected the redline. * Someone got mad and went to Semafor. It's unclear that this has even really escalated prior to the arti…
A classic: THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMS WRITTEN IN JAVA. JAVA TECHNOLOGY IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND IS NOT DESIGNED, MANUFACTURED, OR INTENDED FOR USE OR RESALE AS ONLINE CONTROL EQUIPMENT IN HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS REQUIRING FAILSAFE PERFORMANCE, SUCH AS IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, DIRECT LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES, OR…
author added "must be used for good, not evil" to the license
...and IBM asked for an exception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSLint#License
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866
note that restricting use of software makes it non-free gpl-wise.
RMS said the GPL does not restrict rights of the USER of software, just that when the software is redistributed, the rights are passed along.
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I know that some things like this are accepted in America Not really. Everything you said about contracts above applies to contracts in America last time I checked. Disclaimer: IANAL, my legal training amounts of 1 semester of "Business Law" in college.
In theory yes, but you also have this stuff where people agree to get medical treatment and the price isn't specified. This would be a non-contract in Swedish law, for example.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code
[2]: The UCC also covers other things, but these cases are a lot of what it's best known for.
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How do you explain Trump unilaterally renaming the Ministry of Defense, without legislative approval? Is it a “working branch” if their constitutionally granted power is easily sidestepped?
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The fact of being elected is not relevant to the question, and neither is the nominal existence of constitutional checks. Extrajudicial murder of alleged criminals, abuse of criminal prosecution to target political enemies, armed thugs yanking innocent people out of their cars, steamrolling firms and universities into administration-favorable policy changes and extracting hundreds of millions of dollars — and that's…