folocitoan
They didn't "reasonably" fear anything. There is absolutely no evidence to support these allegations. Anthropic has the right to impose licensing terms. Merely disagreeing with the government is not evidence of wrongdoing.
If Anthropic wasn't allowed to say what they said, how would they be allowed to object to their government's illegal use of their products at all? It sounds to me like their only choices were "shut up" or "be punished", which is a clear-cut violation of their rights.
They absolutely did. If a product is designated a supply chain risk, no one is allowed to use it anywhere in the DoD's supply chain.
Robofactories? The idea was roundly mocked and completely failed, costing many millions of dollars, leading to manufacturing defects on thousands of vehicles, and delaying Model 3 mass production.
Hyperloops? The idea was roundly mocked and completely failed. Somehow it attracted hundreds of millions of dollars of investment. (There's suspicion Musk proposed the idea cynically to distract from rail.)
Robotaxis? Waymo started in 2004 and is, today, ahead of Tesla.
Electric cars? Again, demonstrated long before Musk got involved. The frustration amongst environmentalists at the time was that the technology and demand both existed but manufacturers weren't interested in making them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
(Before you claim the EV1 was so obscure as to not count, GM built about 1,000 of them, vs 2500 Roadsters. If it doesn't count, neither does the Roadster.)
Reusable launch vehicles? Work started on them in the '70s at the latest and they were the American workhorse by the '80s. The basic design SpaceX settled on was demonstrated in the '90s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
Satellite internet? Obviously old hat, so let's restrict ourselves to LEO constellations. These were proposed in the Star Wars project and were built by several companies in the 1990s. Starlink is much larger and more modern, but the basic idea was proven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalstar
This narrative that Musk has done things other people considered impossible is simply untrue. Everywhere he's found success, other people had already demonstrated the basic idea. Everywhere the consensus was that he had lost the plot, he failed completely. Impressive work should not require exaggeration.
I will have to grant that this was previously unthinkable:
Just as a matter of what's more effective, even aside from the fact that judging people is inherently wrong.
I am not sure I buy that. Rape is intensely upsetting to humans, but that does not imply it is so upsetting to other animals. And dairy cows aren't usually impregnated through sex to my knowledge; they are artificially inseminated. I don't see evidence that cows find this upsetting.
It's unnecessary to bring in weak arguments when we have such strong arguments. Cows are distraught beyond measure when their calves are taken away.
People tend to seek the feeling of blamelessness when they should seek the condition of blamelessness. Often doing the right thing will make a person feel guiltier than doing the wrong one.