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Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Post by 7952 »

ben4next wrote: post #28
flohofwoe wrote: post #17

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That was seriously what I thought the headline is about. Anthropic flying in their employees to clean up the trash after Trumps birthday party for free to demonstrate their obedience with a good show of licking the Dear Leader's boots. Extremely silly of course, but entirely in line with all the other news currently coming out of the US ;)

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Being angry about one thing does not mean someone is ok with another.

And the context is quite different. The complaint about Trump relates more to what he is doing. Your complaint about Biden relates to something a party invitee did.

I guess a similarity is an element of virtue signalling. But if that is something you have a problem with then you must really hate Donald Trump because that seems to be his entire presidency. And the fight against homophobia is a legitimately virtuous activity. Right and wrong do exist.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Post by ben4next »

7952 wrote: post #61
ben4next wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Being angry about one thing does not mean someone is ok with another. And the context is quite different. The complaint about Trump relates more to what he is doing. Your complaint about Biden relates to something a party invitee did. I guess a similarity is an element of virtue signalling. But if that is something you have a problem with then you must really hate Donald Trump because that seems to be his entire pres…

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Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Post by piva00 »

throwaway132448 wrote: post #56
piva00 wrote: post #45

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Unfortunately it's not widely distributed information, if you care so much about shedding a light on Amodei's shadiness it would help a lot folks like me to understand what you are talking about. I know of Sam Altman's shenanigans from way before OpenAI (I used to be on reddit a lot more when `sama` appeared over there) but I have no idea about Amodei. Help us out because otherwise it really does read as yet another…

Despite already being familiar with such a person (in the form of Altman), for some reason you are trying to find minor reasons that they are different people, and it’s distracting you from the major reasons that they are actually the same people. I can’t offer any more than that, because it’s all I have. It’s about observation not conspiracy.

Ok, I thought there was more to it.

I'm not trying anything, I want more information if it's available, otherwise it's all conjecture... Even though I dislike anyone at that level of power, the way you phrased things implied there was more information. You are just expressing an opinion and that's ok, just don't make it sound like there's more to it than that.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Post by ChoGGi »

arwineap wrote: post #33
ben4next wrote: post #28

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Are you upset that the Whitehouse invited citizens to the lawn, or are you upset that they banned someone who was behaving distastefully?

You can't ban the president from the White House.

/s

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Post by tmaly »

comrade1234 wrote: post #6

After seeing headlines about the ufc fight on the White House lawn and seeing headlines about how Japanese World Cup fans clean up trash after the match I had an image of programmers doing lawn care at the White House...

I only saw a contrast of Japanese World Cup vs NY Knicks

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Post by tmaly »

bushido wrote: post #46

Anecdotally, I think this is a much bigger cleanup than just talking to the administration. I think there's a wider damage done which there is no coming back from. And this is for the USA, not Anthropic. The chance that sovereignty and rules such as this could be applied to AI was a concern that a lot of people had, but the risk was unknown. Speaking for myself, I had guessed this would happen at some point of time.…

Back when encryption and PGP was the hot topic, similar things happened with sovereigns.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Post by aaron695 »

bushido wrote: post #46

Anecdotally, I think this is a much bigger cleanup than just talking to the administration. I think there's a wider damage done which there is no coming back from. And this is for the USA, not Anthropic. The chance that sovereignty and rules such as this could be applied to AI was a concern that a lot of people had, but the risk was unknown. Speaking for myself, I had guessed this would happen at some point of time.…

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Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Post by anuramat »

throwaway132448 wrote: post #35
petesergeant wrote: post #27

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> Amodei has always been and always will be a creep Like at what point do the weird and random Amodei smears start to seem like an orchestrated attempt?

They’re not weird or random when you’ve lived around many people like him before. Apparently not enough of us have unfortunately, so you keep elevating them when you should know better. So here I am trying to give you a heads up.

billionaires are all evil, we get it; do you have anything relevant to say?

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Post by throwaway132448 »

anuramat wrote: post #69
throwaway132448 wrote: post #35

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They’re not weird or random when you’ve lived around many people like him before. Apparently not enough of us have unfortunately, so you keep elevating them when you should know better. So here I am trying to give you a heads up.

billionaires are all evil, we get it; do you have anything relevant to say?

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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