[Chance-Device]

Or in my favourite formulation: “Never assume conspiracy where mere incompetence will do”.

[qsera]

And mine "You can be incompetent and become the POTUS twice!"

[grodriguez100]

Hanlon’s razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

[QuadmasterXLII]

Hanlons razor has fucked us, voters tolerate unlimited malice as long as the politicians can demonstrate they are genuinely incompetent

[amelius]

Note that people can also abuse it as a tactic.

[polishTar]

The people of hacker news seem to really want this to be some sort of conspiracy. It's quite interesting to see.

"It's deliberate sabotage by Amazon", "It's retribution by Hegseth for embarrassing the DoW", "It's a brilliant marketing scheme by Anthropic", "It's because of the govt is considering investing in OpenAI and so they're crippling any competitors".

It's never just "a very poorly formed regulatory action in response to increasingly capable models".

[ray_kay777]

In fairness, this tweet makes it seem very much like it's retribution from Hegseth:

https://xcancel.com/PeteHegseth/status/2065897156226015690#m