Finally silicon valley is being shown who they sucked up to.
I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
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#622Earlier quoted context omitted.
They don't. They want to punish a company for expressing values that introduce friction to the whims of the current administration.
No, stop, I understand the politics here, but I’m asking about the technical fundamentals. LLMs produce output of unknowable and unpredictable accuracy , and as far as we know, this is a mathematically unsolvable problem . This shit should not be within 1000 miles of a weapons system. Why are we even talking about this?
> LLMs produce output of unknowable and unpredictable accuracy
So do humans. But humans might not follow illegal or immoral orders.
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#623Should military contractors put conditions on the use of their weapons?
Here's our tank, but you can't invade Iran with it?
We think your invasion of Venezuela is illegal, we're activating the kill switch on your jets.
That's a real dangerous proposition.
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#624This is good news all around, especially with OpenAI's statement siding with Anthropic.
Anthropic folks: I've been a bit salty on HN about bugs in Claude Code, but I feeling pretty warm and fuzzy about sending you my cash this month.
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#625Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not in software though. Clear precedent has been established via EULAs. Software companies set the rules and if users don't like, they can piss off. I don't see why it would be any different for the government.
Because it's the government? Companies need to follow the rules the government sets, if they like it or not
Um. No, that's not how it works...
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#627McCarthyism began in 1947, with Truman demanding goverment employees be "screened for loyalty". They wanted to remove anyone who was a member of an "organization" they didn't like. It began with hearings, and then blacklists, and then arrests and prison sentences. It lasted until 1959. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism ) This is the new McCarthyism. Do what the administration says, or you will be blackliste…
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#628Trump's associated "Truth" ("Truth Social" is the name of his risible fake-Twitter and they call Tweets, "Truths" there) that preceded this: https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/36981 Don't worry, this is an archive/mirroring site for his account, not the actual TS site. I'd comment on how wackadoo this all is, but, 1) that applies to almost everything these days, and 2) the post's right there, see for yourself.
I really don't follow USA-politics besides the occasional hn-thread, random yt videos, and comments from friends... With that said: what are the chances, in your opinion, that Donald wrote that himself? To me it reads too coherent for there to be any chance he wrote or even dictated that.
I think odds are high a lot of these posts are by staffers. The posting volume is bananas, even granting that he spends a lot more time personally online and watching cable news et c. than any prior president, I don’t think there’s any way they’re all by him.
I do think a lot of the more hot-take type posts (often in response to stuff he’s watching on tv) are either actually him, or he’s dictating to an aide. These larger policy-type ones that he treats as quasi-executive-orders, I think are likely drafted by one or more of his cabinet-level folks, or others roughly as high up. That’s just my speculation based on reading the “tea leaves”, though.
As for official word, it waffles between “all of it’s him” and “oh not that one though, that racist video repost was a staffer who made a mistake”, so that’s little help in sussing out the truth (but I am rather certain they’re not all directly written and posted by him)
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#629I admire Anthropic for sticking to their principles, even if it affects the bottom line. That’s the kind of company you want to work for.
This whole saga is extremely depressing and dystopic.
Anthropic is holding firm on incredibly weak red lines. No mass surveillance for Americans, ok for everyone else, and ok to automatic war machines, just not fully unmanned until they can guarantee a certain quality.
This should be a laughably spineless position. But under this administration it is taken as an affront to the president and results in the government lashing out.
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#630The disconnect here for me is, I assume the DoW and Anthropic signed a contract at some point and that contract most likely stipulated that these are the things they can do and these are the things they can't do. I would assume the original terms the DoW is now railing against were in those original contracts that they signed. In that case it looks like the DoW is acting in bad faith here, they signed the original co…
I don't believe they can change the name to Department of War without an actor Congress. It remains the DoD.
They can, however, rename their Twitter/X accounts and vacate the @SecDef handle, which seems to be up for grabs now, if anyone wants to do the funniest thing...