Add it to the "but no one's going to do anything about it" pile
Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
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#152Presumably this is going to lead to anthropic getting a big payday from the US gov for all the time their flagship product was banned and all the users they lost due to it
This is about the DoD supply chain risk designation—*not* the export controls.
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#153Unlawful means absolutely nothing these days.
Right, like the student debt forgiveness. We hate the ones we disagree with and we love the ones we agree with.
I dont know what you mean there. There is literally no symmetry between the two. Not in the case of how Biden administration reacted to cases they lost. And also not in the supreme court treatment - it ideological and political goals are pretty clear at this point, although not always pro-Trump.
Re: Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
#154When this administration is done we need to amend the constitution to hold politicians legally and financially responsible for intentionally lying and intentionally breaking the law. This was obviously illegal on its face and yet there is no consequence to pushing the norms.
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#155When this administration is done we need to amend the constitution to hold politicians legally and financially responsible for intentionally lying and intentionally breaking the law. This was obviously illegal on its face and yet there is no consequence to pushing the norms.
Presumably taxpayers will pay for it one way or the other.
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Re: Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
#157When this administration is done we need to amend the constitution to hold politicians legally and financially responsible for intentionally lying and intentionally breaking the law. This was obviously illegal on its face and yet there is no consequence to pushing the norms.
Presumably taxpayers will pay for it one way or the other.
I think they get a personal financial penalty with no insurance coverage. This has to stop.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a shame companies like Google immediately folded instead of standing with them. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left... In his recent interview Emil Michael (DoW undersecretary, "AI czar") even mentions that the Anthropic case served as motivation for Google folding. It is a shame that Google's leadership is so spineless. On the minuscule off-chance any of those VPs are reading HN - you a…
Didn't google give up "not being evil" a long long time ago? Are you really surprised?
Google does plenty of evil. This has nothing to do with the slogan.
"Don't be evil" was never removed. But even if it was, the idea that Google just was champing at the bit to do all this evil but was held back by the pesky slogan is ridiculous.
Re: Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
#159Unlawful means absolutely nothing these days.
I don’t know, the $166B in refunds returned to importers after the IEEPA tariffs were ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court seem pretty meaningful
Meaningful as a mega transfer of tax revenue from citizens to corporations, which for all we know was the whole point.
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#160"The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics."