Probably because it hurts its position either in court or during negotiations with the DoW.

Right, I was hoping for Anthropic to stand its ground a bit more. There’s quite a bit of “ring kissing” undertones in today’s memo.

I think this is one of the weaknesses of rationalism and effective altruism, is that it tries to make a clean break from the common law legal reasoning that the government, and thus corporations, operate on. While I find rationalism to be a useful lens, the fact is that the common law legal framework is totally dominant, and so these deontological arguments made rationally collapse very quickly when translated to the dominant framework.

To be fair, common law and the current system are totally fucking dumb. Everyone that has come up with it and perpetuates it should be ashamed of themselves.

As much as Trump and Hegseth would like it to be called the Department of War, it still takes an act of Congress to change the name of the Department of Defense. No reason to call it by anything else until that happens.

Department of peace sounds even better than defense.

They are pacifiers. Kills everything until it’s pacified.

No it doesn’t, it sounds like newspeak.

Departament of defense sounds like a newspeak for a country that was not in any danger of being invaded for a century or more and all the wars abroad it participated in, it entered pretty much by choice. Department of war is way more accurate.

I'm pretty sure they're being sarcastic

This is such a foot stomping childish thing to get caught up on. It does not at all matter what a dept is called. Try to get over the extremely superficial.

On the other hand, the parent post is entirely correct.

What, I ask, is the point of having laws and rules if you can just ignore the ones you don't like?

Its just a name, who cares?

Not me.

…but, if you break the law, you break the law. Not maybe maybe who cares, its not me being water boarded, I dont care…

If you break the law. You break the law.

Otherwise, who gives a duck what congress says?

Just fire them all and crown Trump King of America.

I’m being facetious. …but maybe its more of a big deal than you superficially pretend it is.

It’s just another case of the administration blatantly breaking the rules.

…so, you know. If youre ok with no laws or rules, I guess its fine.

Seems a bit chaotic to me. I prefer my governing body to be… marginally bound by some kind of responsibilty to something or someone.

link to the memo?

thanks a lot

Not everything has to be a conspiracy or some 4D chess business move. Dario is a morally motivated person and regretted the tone that was being conveyed in that memo, so he apologized.

Yeah, that's completely unbelievable. You don't just accidentally call Trump a "dictator" or go on an extended tirade about Sam Altman. Clearly, he was speaking how he truly felt and how he's doing damage control.

> he was speaking how he truly felt

People can speak how they truly feel and then regret the tone with zero cynicism.

Its incredibly simple - they want to get off the supply chain risk list.

Its very evident in his statement, he's trying very hard to clarify what that list means for corporations and downstream business with large commercial and strategic companies.

Imagine if Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc decided that they don't want to ANY sort of minuscule risk (real or perceived) to their massive public sector business lines (via all their DoD DoJ NHS and other 3 letter agencies, state agencies, city and local municipals etc) - and decide to cancel their enterprise Anthropic licenses - which is a VERY possible scenario.

And these are the big players, theres a whole slew of medium and small players all with existing government contracts that need to tread carefully.

Because optically it makes him look terrible.

One of the things that Altman does great is that when he writes he writes as though it will be read by the public every time. It’s why he is able to constantly post his own internal memos/posts on twitter. It’s great too because it makes him look “transparent”.

Sam?

Feel free to look through my post history and decide for yourself if I’m likely to be an OAI/Sam fan.

Try decoupling how you feel about people and what you think objectively about them.