| Pick a lane; can America walk away, or are we still leashed to the Levant? The biggest flaw with this logic is that China can recover from an oil blockade much faster than America can regenerate interceptors and munitions. The longer the US enforces the blockade, the lower the magazine depth is; that gives China the advantage especially in a protracted blockade scenario. Their strategic reserve has been worth its weight in gold, and the US can't punish China with a blockade indefinitely. Another aspect is the what the rest of the Middle East is feeling. They know that the US can't continue like this forever, so they'll have to appease Iran at some point to return the status quo. US military installations, American-run datacenters and US-administered airports all became targets instantly. Civil infrastructure like water treatment, power generation and bridges are still underneath the Sword of Damocles. If they assent to a wider war, both sides will bleed heavily, and neither will have much to gain in the end besides a destabilized region. > False. > they invest money in safety training the open weight models they release. Ah, next you'll tell me that every model could be AGI if the owners didn't nerf it with safety finetunes. Thankfully, we have abliterated and finetune-free base models to cross-reference, and these open models can remove refusals entirely. This goes for models like GPT-OSS as well, which can be made to do all sorts of horrible liability-inducing generations if you prompt it to. It's entirely possible to remove the majority of these refusals in even the most advanced reasoning models, you can't really argue that they're being adequately suppressed. > Companies are made of people and people do not suddenly become unfeeling as a result of being associated with a company. Correct, it is money that extricates people from moral responsibility, not proximity to a business. How do you think we got Jeffrey Epstein anyways, a financier got dropped off by a stork? > It's actually not typical and China is the only country that does this. They're the only ones open about it. I know you're a jingoist lackey, but even you can't refute NOBUS capabilities like Room 641A et. al. Those same crooks are breaking into US-owned servers and doing the exact same thing in 2026. You don't even have the decency to deny it. > Imagine if in the US, the republican and democrat parties had their own militaries and none of them existed to defend _you_ That's basically what the purpose of the US Army is, post Civil War. Conservatism lost and submit to the auspices of federal administration. The republican identity of American politics was reformed into a democratic autocracy where each partisan leader is the Commander-in-Chief of the entire armed forces. The secular difference between both philosophies is moot when, for example, Crimea is invaded or Israel is attacked. All logic goes out the door to fulfill blithe political objectives. > That is not a very useful perspective from which to convince other people that it is good and safe to use. Sure it is. Trust nobody, use nobody's server. Buy your own hardware and administrate your own data. Anthropic and OpenAI will consume your data and sell it back to you; they are not your benefactor. Support open models and resist federal interventionism, exercise your constitutional right to free speech even when it pisses off Dario or Sam. |