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by monkaiju 105 days ago
Always surprised when these "smart people" didn't see these things coming from several years away... Its honestly hard for me to believe it.

Going to work for these big SV corps is and always has been directly in service of US empire, that's literally what built the valley in the first place.

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Haha that's what I thought, but my thought was that I can't believe Sam Altman didn't see a serious backlash coming when Anthropic rejected a contract saying "the only two things we won't do are mass surveillance and autonomous killer drones" and within 6 hours Sam was all over that.
The only thing that can stop a bad ai with a guy is a good ai with a gun.
I thought they missed the deadline. That’s hardly a rejection. They’re still negotiating, right?
It's easier to defer principled decision making to the future while you can rake in the cash in the meantime.
Yeah i think this is pretty much it tbh