[Imnimo]

>What we’re learning from this episode is that the government actually has way more leverage over private companies than we realized.

Who is learning this for the first time only now? Even just restricting ourselves to the current administration, look at how many times Trump has directed punitive actions against private entities! Look at his actions against law firms like Perkins Coie or Covington & Burling. This is not something that just arose out of nowhere with Anthropic.

[synalx]

This stood out to me too - there's an underlying assumption that private entities _can_ say no to governments, but that's only true to a point. If the government decides it needs AI-powered killbots as a matter of national security, it can and will nationalize whatever entities it needs to build them.

[guessmyname]

> Who is learning this for the first time only now?

A teenager, probably. Not everyone is 100 years old.