Remember "small government"?
Smaller government has always been code for bigger me, at least in recent American politics. Now me is government, so bigger government.
Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
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Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#92Had Cancelled my Claude sub after they banned OAuth in external tools, but just renewed it today after seeing their principled stance on AI ethics - they matter more when they hurt profits, happy to support them as a Customer whilst they keep them.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#93Not to intentionally sidetrack the conversation, but when did we start calling service members 'warfighters?' I've been seeing it a lot lately, but don't remember ever really seeing it before. Do members of the military prefer this title?
It's a Hegseth malapropism, which is why it's slightly disturbing that Dario continues to use it. edit: To be clear, Hegseth didn't create it, merely has popularized its use recently. Eg his speech at Quantico last Sept
"I learned the word a week ago therefore it is new."
The term—and its use in the now-Department of War—dates back to the late 80s.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#94I used to work at Anthropic, and I wrote a comment on a thread earlier this week about Anthropic's first response and the RSP update [1][2].
I think many people on HN have a cynical reaction to Anthropic's actions due to of their own lived experiences with tech companies. Sometimes, that holds: my part of the company looked like Meta or Stripe, and it's hard not to regress to the mean as you scale. But not every pattern repeats, and the Anthropic of today is still driven by people who will risk losing a seat at the table to make principled decisions.
I do not think this is a calculated ploy that's driven by making money. I think the decision was made because the people making this decision at Anthropic are well-intentioned, driven by values, and motivated by trying to make the transition to powerful AI to go well.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if I like Anthropic more, but I certainly like their competitors much less now. The new thing that I know about leading AI companies that aren't Anthropic (i.e. OpenAI, Google, Grok, etc) is that they knowingly support using their tools for domestic mass surveillance and in fully autonomous weapon systems.
Is that actually the case? or are they just not supplying LLMs to DoW and Anthropic is?
The other companies have signed the waiver, however they aren’t being used in classified systems currently. So that type of use is already extremely limited for them. Now once they enter into those contracts to be used in those systems without these protections, I will cancel my subs to them and switch to Anthropic. xAi entered into that contract last week. Altman is now publicly siding with anthropic, so he better stand on that position with openai as they are currently negotiating for use in those system.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#96Don't worry, OpenAI will kneel for the king: > Sam Altman told OpenAI employees at an all-hands meeting on Friday afternoon that a potential agreement is emerging with the U.S. Department of War to use the startup’s AI models and tools, according to a source present at the meeting and a summary of the meeting seen by Fortune. The contract has not yet been signed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188698 Fuck thi…
Can just see it now.
You're absolutely right to point that out -- thank you for catching it. I made a mistake in my previous response and that last act appears to have caused civilian casualties. Let me take a closer look and clarify the correct details for you.
(Will leave you to imagine the bullseye emoji, etc.)
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#97Could this escalate to the point that Anthropic exits the US and sets up shop elsewhere? Or would the company cease to exist before it got to that point?
Every other country is significantly less free than the US. America is freedom's last stand.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#98I used to work at Anthropic, and I wrote a comment on a thread earlier this week about Anthropic's first response and the RSP update [1][2]. I think many people on HN have a cynical reaction to Anthropic's actions due to of their own lived experiences with tech companies. Sometimes, that holds: my part of the company looked like Meta or Stripe, and it's hard not to regress to the mean as you scale. But not every patt…
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does NOT extend to compute. GCP and AWS cannot use Claude to build anything part of a DoD contract, but they do not need to deny Anthropic access to compute itself.
> conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic Surely that would cover both buying things from and selling things to Anthropic.
Yes but that part is an overreach (they don't actually have the authority to do this, regardless of what they say.)
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#100This an extremely polite “fuck you, make me”. It’s good to see that they have principles, and I suspect strongly that Anthropic will come out on top here if they stand firm.
If the Trump admin so chooses, they could absolutely obliterate Anthropic in an instant. They don't really care about tricky things like 'legality' or 'the court of law', they could just force everyone to stop interacting with them, raid their offices and steal all their shit. Perhaps they should've found their spine a year earlier; right now their only hope is that the admin isn't stupid enough to crash the propped-…
> They don't really care about tricky things like 'legality' or 'the court of law', they could just force everyone to stop interacting with them, raid their offices and steal all their shit.
This is criticism that I would use to describe countries like China and Russia, and many other poorer ones. Were the Trump administration to do this, it would be unequivocal evidence that we are dealing with an unlawful insurgent government. I doubt it will happen, but I'm often wrong.