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by margalabargala 51 days ago
No need to wonder.

The answer is, the organization making the powerful tool. The people in charge of Anthropic.

Not only that, but they've also written at length about exactly what their opinions and values are: https://darioamodei.com/

You may not agree with the decisions that they make, but they're hardly mysterious. Not something to wonder about.
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Laurel1234 51 days ago
Amodei has no values, he's a hollow husk and he'd sell his family into sex slavery if it could make him a buck.
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margalabargala 51 days ago
Nonsense. Everyone has values. "Make myself maximum money" is a value. "Amass maximum power over the world's information" is a value. It's clear Amodei certainly follows the latter, and I would soften the former somewhat for him; they did after all decline the Pentagon contract that would have made money but would have meant giving up some control of information.
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Laurel1234 50 days ago
Those aren't values. Maybe goals or motivations but not values in any conceivable way, shape or form. This site is full of pod people I swear.
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margalabargala 50 days ago
Maybe it would help if you shared your private personal definition of "value", since you're clearly not using the one from the dictionary...
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Laurel1234 50 days ago
Only a Yankee would need an explanation of what values are or why only caring about making money isn't one.

What a disgusting country filled with hollow degenerates. No wonder you keep voting for a senile grifting pedophile.

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margalabargala 50 days ago
Look, self-loathing is all the rage, but just because you don't understand what "values" mean doesn't mean you have to insult your entire country along with you.

As for making money, you're right, it's not one of your values. It takes a special case of main character syndrome to think it's not anyone's value.

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trollbridge 50 days ago
The one they ended up going “well I guess we’ll contract with them after all”, after cleverly using their sort-of-refusal to gain a ton of goodwill and new customers?
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margalabargala 50 days ago
Yes, because it changed slightly, addressing their complaint. The complaint was small in scope.

Again, just because someone has values, doesn't mean they have values you think are good.

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