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I am a political moderate who dislikes both the Democrats and Republicans. I think that I have been fair to the Trump administration in the past, including occasionally defending them from some of the less reality-based accusations against them. I canceled my ChatGPT subscription a couple of days ago. In my opinion the Trump administration has become far too much of an "imperial Presidency" in its acts of war and its…
Genuine question - was your fair consideration prior to or after J6?
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Been going on for a long time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
There is a substantial difference between the standard lobbying and greasing the legislative wheels, and what's going on with this current administration. Even if companies were pretending to play by the rules before, at least they had some need to put in the effort to pretend. When a society can see belligerent ostentatious corruption going on as the norm, nothing good can follow.
That is investment aka corruption
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It opens the door for Democratic administrations to do the same to vendors for their own political reasons. That’s ultimately why Ted Cruz spoke out about the Kimmel cancelation. It doesn’t take long until those powers are turned against you.
I think we should really judge governments by their actions and stop labeling them democracies, if they do such things that don't look like democracies at all.
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this isn't on topic at all
I think the implication is that democratic presidents are less likely to do dumb shit like this, which harms the economy.
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Fairy astute intuition of my actual circumstances. I'm not a developer, nor am I formally educated on the dynamics or details of LLMs. I have a handle on the very basics. My 'research' consists of 1) opportunistically interrogating various models upon instances that particularly strike me. 2) General exploration via LLM discussions regarding the manifold consequences and implications of what I consider the most signi…
Okay, I think I see what you're saying. Each individual point stands on its own. It's their relevance to each other and an overarching theme I am not seeing made explicit. The through line I am seeing here is that: 1) The people in the US military wish to use AI as a weapon unconstrained by existing legal/ethical and moral constraints. Since they are skilled at using violence and the threat of it, they will use these…
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Tainted? Because they refused to change a contract that was already signed to allow for surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous kill bots? I guarantee, if a sane and non-fascist administration ever takes power again Anthropic will be forgiven. Being attacked by this administration is an honor. OpenAI on the other hand…
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The military is perhaps the biggest possible customer around. They do plenty of things that aren't blowing people up. It's not bad to help with non combat tasks.
Yeah, but aren’t all of those things in service of “blowing people up”?
People taking a good idea and extending it to do bad does harm twice: in the bad act itself and in making a good thing seem bad.
I am strongly against US starting wars and as you say blowing people up.
I am also strongly against the US being defenseless in the case of a national emergency.
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Writing out a thought I had, someone please critique my reasoning here... What if Anthropic just shrugged, dissolved the company and open-sourced all of the Opus weights? Could this harm OpenAI and advance AI in a reasonable way? Look I know it's an insane idea. I'm just curious what the most unhinged response to this might be.
This is awful. That a disagreement tjat involves politics can make a company ruined is really awful. The civil society should be quite concerned about this kind of attacks.
It opens the door for Democratic administrations to do the same to vendors for their own political reasons. That’s ultimately why Ted Cruz spoke out about the Kimmel cancelation. It doesn’t take long until those powers are turned against you.
Meh, I think it's entirely asymmetrical in this era. Democrats aren't good for much, but they're very good at respecting norms.
Trump is willing to do completely unprecedented, vindictive, and malicious things because he's so popular with so many people who are either checked out, nihilistic, corrupt, or just completely unconcerned about the concept of good governance.
It's not a pendulum where there's some super-corrupt Democrat waiting in the wings to do the same things upon their enemies, this really is the Republican party openly embracing kleptocracy and lawlessness.