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In mine, "All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it…” and this is close to what people in court saw, “there's something creepy about how any disagreement, any public disagreement is taken as unacceptable.”

So I agree with the judge, who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.

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> So I agree with the judge, who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.

Unfortunately for you and all of the other people here endlessly talking about her use of "Orwellian" as references to thoughtcrimes, reality control, and doublethink, she was likely instead using the word in reference to the fact that the DoW wanted to use the tech for surveillance.

So, no, you don't agree with the judge, as convenient as that appeal to authority may have seemed. She made a slightly hyperbolic statement about the surveillance state. You all went into... I don't even know what.

[enoint]

No, it's quite clear, from the brief:

> Moreover, Defendants’ designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” is likely both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious. The Department of War provides no legitimate basis to infer from Anthropic’s forthright insistence on usage restrictions that it might become a saboteur. At oral argument, government counsel suggested that Anthropic showed its subversive tendencies by “questioning” the use of its technology, “raising concerns” about it, and criticizing the government’s position in the press. Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government

And something like 150 retired judges signed on, those are the amicus briefs supporting Anthropic:

> Numerous amici have also described wide- ranging harm to the public interest, including the chilling of open discussion about important topics in AI safety. The motion for a preliminary injunction is granted.

She could have said that those amicus briefs raise surveillance concerns. She didn't use the word surveillance; she didn't say AI safety is important; she said open discussion about AI safety is important. That's the issue over which this injunction is granted.

We know that the judge asked a long, organized list of questions to the government; there are multiple ways for the government to get out of a contract, and she gave them room for nuance. We're talking about an astute top graduate of the Ivy League, who understands what it means to reference 1984; not some new jerk appointee.

So, I have to wonder if your perspective is an experiment. It's possible for someone today to pretend to be as brainwashed as the proles in 1984, to gauge 2026 reactions in a near-anonymous forum. Do like-minded others jump in? How many people actually read the judicial order? Do bots come out of the woodwork to bring up colonization and antisemitism points against Blair himself? If you bring up the same points on Reddit, do certain phrases appear at a frequency too high for coincidence? Orwell appears so regularly that repeated trials of this might demonstrate that the window is opening to a kind of 1984 doubt. I think we agree that'd be fascinating research.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"