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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

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Re: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

#51

It's not named the Department of War because Congress didn't rename it. Other than that, good on ya.

While I agree the name change has not (yet) been made with the proper authority, I'm quite partial to the name and prefer to use it despite its prematurity. I think it does a better job of communicating the types of work actually done by the department and rightly gives people pause about their support of it. Though I'm sure that wasn't the administration's intention.

Re: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

#54

It's not named the Department of War because Congress didn't rename it. Other than that, good on ya.

Less hypocritical than Defense. US has never been on the defense, always offense since it was renamed in 1947.

Re: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

#55

Props to Dario and Anthropic for taking a moral stand. A rarity in tech these days.

Agreed. You don’t have to be an LLM maximalist or a doomer to see the opportunity for real, practical danger from ubiquitous surveillance and autonomous weapons. It would have been extremely easy for Dario to demonstrate the same level of backbone as Sam Altman or Sundar Pichai.

Re: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

#56
post #41

Department of War is just such a fucking joke title - when has the US stooped so low, I used to believe in you guys as the force of good on this planet smh

I'm 33 years old, would you mind telling me which year you thought this was, force of good stuff? might be before my time

genuinely curious, I got nothing

Re: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

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post #24

As a "foreign national", what's the deal with making the distinction between domestic mass surveillance and foreign mass surveillance? Are there no democracies aside from the US? Don't we know since Snowden that if the US wants to do domestic surveillance they'll just ask GCHQ to share their "foreign" surveillance capabilities?

Particularly so when those foreign nationals can be consumers. “fuck your basic human rights, but we can take your money just fine”.

Re: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

#59

This is such a depressing read. What is becoming of the USA? Let's hope sanity prevails and the next election cycle can bring in some competent non-grievance based leadership.

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That seems to be a denial of reality. Democrats are already winning races all over the country, in places that (traditionally) have been Republican strongholds.

But don't let me stop you from believing in a worldview that contradicts reality ... lost of Republicans (and some Democrats) do it too.

Re: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

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post #24

As a "foreign national", what's the deal with making the distinction between domestic mass surveillance and foreign mass surveillance? Are there no democracies aside from the US? Don't we know since Snowden that if the US wants to do domestic surveillance they'll just ask GCHQ to share their "foreign" surveillance capabilities?

>democracies aside from the US.

I mean, I guess from '65 to around 96? We had a good run.

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