I’m very familiar with how the Fed Contracting system works (and doesn’t work, on occasion).
The Anthropic setup was known from the start. OpenAI is out of money, and without another major funding round, they’re done. Now that the Feds have robustly installed them in the system, they can screw up deliverables and timelines as much as they want and still be guaranteed funding without having to go through a messy public bailout. Same money down the hole, just via a less obvious pathway.
Same game as Ellison / Oracle. They don’t have clients, they have hostages. They control the Feds vs the other way around. Keeping OpenAI propped up is vital to the whole circular finance carousel that comprises the current US economy.
There’s also that Bitcoin COBOL issue that caused the Trumpers to sour on Anthropic. Good that the GOP is so vehemently against “government picking winners and losers”.
Amazing that they can still say it with a straight face. 😑
One of the biggest frustrations with the whole Dario and Anthropic vs the DoD and Kegsbreath was the fact that Dario kept “putting his foot down” and saying “No I won’t have my tech used in this Authoritarian way”…and people were eating in up online and in many YT comment sections, praising him for being a “good guy”
It’s funny because if people actually did literally 5 minutes of research they would’ve seen that Dario said back in July in a leaked memo:
“Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”
Which he said because Anthropic was gonna seek funding from certain Middle East nations and acknowledged that “Dictators” in that region may become enriched.
People listen to my words: A BUSINESSMAN DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU OR THE WORLD HE CARES ABOUT HIS BUSINESS AND MAKING MONEY!!!
re: Sam Altman being a lying guy who lied… AGAIN — honestly just taking him at his word for That Tweet™ (but only the first part) has been my go-to strategy honestly:
Who can say if far flung future generations will undersand our prehistoric physiology enough so that when defrosting a penis and it's owner's head, they'll graft them to a new body in the correct order?
Transhumanists should be concerned more with such details.
I’m very familiar with how the Fed Contracting system works (and doesn’t work, on occasion).
The Anthropic setup was known from the start. OpenAI is out of money, and without another major funding round, they’re done. Now that the Feds have robustly installed them in the system, they can screw up deliverables and timelines as much as they want and still be guaranteed funding without having to go through a messy public bailout. Same money down the hole, just via a less obvious pathway.
Same game as Ellison / Oracle. They don’t have clients, they have hostages. They control the Feds vs the other way around. Keeping OpenAI propped up is vital to the whole circular finance carousel that comprises the current US economy.
There’s also that Bitcoin COBOL issue that caused the Trumpers to sour on Anthropic. Good that the GOP is so vehemently against “government picking winners and losers”.
Amazing that they can still say it with a straight face. 😑
One of the biggest frustrations with the whole Dario and Anthropic vs the DoD and Kegsbreath was the fact that Dario kept “putting his foot down” and saying “No I won’t have my tech used in this Authoritarian way”…and people were eating in up online and in many YT comment sections, praising him for being a “good guy”
It’s funny because if people actually did literally 5 minutes of research they would’ve seen that Dario said back in July in a leaked memo:
“Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”
Which he said because Anthropic was gonna seek funding from certain Middle East nations and acknowledged that “Dictators” in that region may become enriched.
People listen to my words: A BUSINESSMAN DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU OR THE WORLD HE CARES ABOUT HIS BUSINESS AND MAKING MONEY!!!
re: Sam Altman being a lying guy who lied… AGAIN — honestly just taking him at his word for That Tweet™ (but only the first part) has been my go-to strategy honestly:
https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1599471830255177728
surprised that what he said wasn't true? well, yeah, he already told you what he was that one time.
Who can say if far flung future generations will undersand our prehistoric physiology enough so that when defrosting a penis and it's owner's head, they'll graft them to a new body in the correct order?
Transhumanists should be concerned more with such details.