Is this those ethics and safety they were talking about?
What's unethical about selling to DoD?
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Re: Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's unethical about selling to DoD?
Do you really not know? It's a difficult question to answer in an HN thread, because on one hand, it requires a review of the history of empire and war profiteering. But on the other hand, it's just obvious to the point of being difficult to even articulate.
Not invalidating your concerns but don't see a strong reason to not do it considering that every other nation is going to leverage this tech.
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#23Re: Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's unethical about selling to DoD?
Do you really not know? It's a difficult question to answer in an HN thread, because on one hand, it requires a review of the history of empire and war profiteering. But on the other hand, it's just obvious to the point of being difficult to even articulate.
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#25When people ask "how do we fix our government?" I answer "Did you try turning it off and on again?"
Implicitly assuming that there is some well defined state that can be recovered when turning it back on. That's not how the real world works, and historically what revolutionaries fail to fully realize is that the trajectory out of a period without government is extremely unlikely to wind up in the state that they desire, much less one that was "stored" or "defined" by a set of per-existing laws.
Re: Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
#26LLMs are a key enabling technology to extract real insights from the enormous amount of surveillance data the USA captures. I think it's not an understatement to say we are entering a new era here! Previously, the data may have been collected, but there was so much that effectively, on average no one was "looking" at it. Now it can all be looked at.
and hallucinated about.
Re: Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
#27Re: Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's unethical about selling to DoD?
Do you really not know? It's a difficult question to answer in an HN thread, because on one hand, it requires a review of the history of empire and war profiteering. But on the other hand, it's just obvious to the point of being difficult to even articulate.
What you’re describing is the result of the issue being complicated, not obvious.
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#29Re: Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
#30https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/pentagon-... - they gave up to 200m to OAI, xAI, and Anthropic
I appreciate your comment, the post title makes it seem like it's Anthropic only!