Decided this thread was the most appropriate place, since while it may indeed be the most likely explanation, it is unlikely Thomas explained it that way.
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Could have gone in the AI or authoritarian thread, but putting it here for now
Exclusive: Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards https://share.google/0bKsWVVnndUrQO52s
Non-subscriber-walled link to the Hegseth v Anthropic story:
https://archive.is/QOmrN
EDIT: This link has additional context which I find more interesting: https://archive.is/8ypAR
hmm, that’s weird as I am not an axios subscriber. Read it for free.
I think you probably bypassed the block by virtue of how you were being referred to it.
Thankfully, archive.is exists, for now.
The “authoritarian” part is telling other Pentagon vendors they can’t use Anthropic.
It seems that if Anthropic is okay with other vendors, that should be good enough for the Pentagon.
I was parsing it as: Anthropic is potentially not OK with Claude being abused for Trumpian purposes, and Hegseth is threatening to block other customers of Anthropic from using it unless Anthropic relaxes its ethics.
Or the threat of using the Defense Production Act to force AI companies to let the Pentagon use their products however they want to.
And one of the things they don’t want the Pentagon to do is mass surveillance of the US, which is authoritarian. One of the others is to not let AI make firing decisions, which is common sense.
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Especially with the work Palantir already does with the government involving mass surveillance, and the Pentagon is using both Claude and Palantir.
Back on the subject of the El Paso airspace closure…
Llol
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“Semiquincentennial” doesn’t easily roll off the tongue. Why not “Quarter Milennium”? Sounds bigger.
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Sure it does.
Semiquincentennial sounds classier, and the inconsistent nomenclature would annoy me.
I think semiquincentennial rolls off the tounge better than sestercentennial or bisesquicentennial, however, and it sounds better than quadrantmillenial.
Quatre-vingt-dix-neuf
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Looking forward to hearing semiquincentennial roll off Trump’s tongue.
And “quadrantmillenial” doesn’t even mean 250, unlike the suggested “quarter millenium”.
