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Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

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Re: Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

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How do I cancel my subscription to the DoW? The bigger picture is that the DoW got what it wanted and it got it by threatening one company while the other did its bidding.

Here's a simple ubsubscribe guide https://usa.gov/renounce-lose-citizenship

Unless we move out of the country though, we are still technically subscribed to the DoW (still need to pay taxes etc)

Re: Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

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Yes we obv need large corporations to exert some kind of control over our elected officials.

Our elected officials shouldn’t violate contracts. This isn’t rocket surgery.

They can have a contract that says whatever they want. My argument is this shouldn't try to push one of these contracts and the government shouldn't agree to such a contract.

Nowhere did I say elected officials should violate contracts.

Re: Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

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Dario's full memo - https://pasteboard.co/4Qlmsorrytlk.jpg

Wow. Surprising to see open hostilities between the leaders of the big ai labs. The differences appear to not just be competitive but also ideological. Edit: Also openly calling OpenAI employees "gullible" and "twitter morons" seems sub-optimal if you like that talent to work for you at some point. Example - https://x.com/tszzl/status/2029334980481212820

> if you like that talent to work for you at some point.

They might not if they think everybody who stayed after Sam Altman was reinstated might be excellent technically speaking yet not have the culture they want, which seems to be the case with all the recent communication.

Re: Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

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"not consistently candid in his communications"

I've now moved to Claude and it's much better actually, if like me you hate their fonts (Anthropic Sans) select System fonts in the Claude preferences and you can use this snippet in Safari's Settings -> Advanced -> Stylesheet to make everything your default system font:

[data-theme=claude] * { font-family: system-ui, sans-serif !important; }

Re: Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

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And why would they have an objection to that? They sold a product to a customer. They should have no business in how that customer uses their software.

It’s a bit more complex than that, but to be fair I don’t know what they were expecting after they integrated a purpose-built model with Palantir to be deployed in high-security networks to carry out classified tasks.

TBH I don’t know what they were expecting when closing that $200 million DoD contract last year.

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pg's sama praise bewilders me. Is there some other Sam Altman he's talking about? > Graham was immediately impressed by Altman, later recalling that meeting the 19-year-old felt like what it must have been like to talk to Bill Gates at the same age. He noted Altman's intense "force of will" from their early interactions. Is there a Gates-like "presence" or a "force of will" displayed in his public interviews?

Given Gates' current reputation, I don't think this aged well.

Especially if you ask Altman's sister (allegedly)

Re: Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

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You should ask the language model that output this text the definition of 'whataboutism,' and if the comment you've posted responds meaningfully to the discussion at hand.

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> you should ask the GP about his use of the word fascist on everything he doesn't like.

If mirror dot org actually existed, you might want to look into it, because your long list of examples has one related to 1930s Germany, and the rest has nothing to do with the political definition of "fascism"?

Your point about legality was valid, but you're undermining it with the sarcasm.

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I hate this so much. The nsa’s spying on everyone in 2010 was “legal” and I can only imagine how much worse it is now with AI to follow your digital footprint around everywhere. Too bad we don’t have any more whistleblowers like Snowden

"Too bad we don’t have any more whistleblowers like Snowden" Probably because most don't want to end up in russia?

I feel so sad about snowden sometimes. I tried reading his book's first few pages on how when he was growing up, he could be anyone in a forum and there was this sense of anonymity and at the same time, just freedom. And later on when he saw just how much the overreach of govt. was etc., he did what others couldn't.

It wasn't as if there weren't any other contractors like Snowden, but there were no other whistleblowers like Snowden

and where'd that leave him? In a country far away from his motherland and being worried about his safety. Being called god knows what by the country at home and most general people don't even care.

Snowden didn't do it for the money, he did it for what he felt was right and that's so rare.

Its so sad how when I searched up on Snowden on youtube, the first thing I found was ex CIA agent claiming Snowden wasn't innocent and how he had to befriend russia but at the same time, that was only because US would have literally killed him and made an example out of him to whistleblow about such a large-scale mass surveillance

“What kind of asshole reveals the fact we’re the assholes, then doesn’t let us kill him!” is one heck of a comment I found.

Also, We will charge the whistleblower with death but we will not take any action against the act which was whistleblown in the first place (:

Re: Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

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Dario's full memo - https://pasteboard.co/4Qlmsorrytlk.jpg

Wow. Surprising to see open hostilities between the leaders of the big ai labs. The differences appear to not just be competitive but also ideological. Edit: Also openly calling OpenAI employees "gullible" and "twitter morons" seems sub-optimal if you like that talent to work for you at some point. Example - https://x.com/tszzl/status/2029334980481212820

Twitter morons wasn't referring to OpenAI employees, I think.
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