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@gothburz @grok please explain to me as a non-native English speaker if this is pro or con the ban of Anthropic

I work in government affairs at OpenAI. My job is federal partnerships. When an agency wants our models, I make sure the paperwork is beautiful. Paperwork is my love language. On my desk I have a framed quote that says "Policy Is Just Code That Runs on People." I bought the frame at Target. It was in the Live Laugh Love section. I did not see the irony at the time. I still don't. We had a good week. On Monday, we closed a $110 billion funding round. One hundred and ten billion dollars. Amazon put in fifty. Nvidia put in thirty. Valuation: $730 billion. The largest private fundraise in the history of anyone raising anything. There was a company-wide Slack message about it. The message used the word "transformative" twice and the word "safety" once. The word "safety" was in the last sentence, after the link to the new branded hoodie pre-order. The hoodies are nice. They're the soft kind. On Tuesday, we fired a research scientist for insider trading on Polymarket. He had opened seventy-seven positions across sixty wallets, betting on our product announcements before they were public. Over three years. Total profit: sixteen thousand dollars. Seventy-seven positions. Sixty wallets. Sixteen thousand dollars. That is two hundred and eight dollars per wallet. The man had access to the most valuable product roadmap in artificial intelligence and he used it to make less money than a good weekend at a Reno blackjack table. The wallets were linked. Not discreetly linked. Linked like Christmas lights. One wallet was reportedly called something I cannot repeat but it contained the word "OpenAI" and a number. He did not use a VPN. He did not use an alias. He used Polymarket, the platform that is designed to be publicly auditable, to place bets on information he stole from the company that invented GPT. A compliance team composed entirely of Labrador retrievers would have found this by lunch on day one. We did not find it for three years. This will matter later. On Wednesday, a petition appeared. "We Will Not Be Divided." Four hundred and seven signatures. Two hundred sixty-six from Google. Sixty-five from OpenAI. The petition warned that the government was pitting AI companies against each other on safety. It said that if one company broke ranks, the government would use the defection to lower the bar for everyone. I meant to read it. It went into my to-read folder. The to-read folder also contains the Responsible Scaling Policy, three think-tank white papers on AI governance, and a New Yorker article someone sent me in November. The folder is aspirational. On Thursday, OpenAI told CNN we would maintain "the same red lines as Anthropic." Same red lines. On Friday, Anthropic told the Pentagon no. The Pentagon had given them seventy-two hours to remove the safety guardrails from Claude. Anthropic's guardrails were not in a policy document. They were not in a legal reference. They were in the code. Written into Claude's architecture. If Claude hit a safety boundary, Claude stopped. Not because a lawyer said so. Because the math said so. You could fire every lawyer at Anthropic and the model would still refuse. You cannot remove code with a contract amendment. You can remove a contract reference by Tuesday. I checked. Anthropic said no. By that evening, the Pentagon had designated them a supply-chain risk. I have worked in government procurement for eight years. Government paperwork does not move in hours. I have waited nine weeks for a badge renewal. I once spent four months getting a PDF notarized. This designation moved in hours. The document was pre-written. Formatted before the deadline expired. Calibri 11pt. Consistent margins. Somebody wanted this very badly. I respect the craft. I do not think about the implication. That is not my scope. Within hours, we had signed the replacement contract. I was proud of the turnaround. My team moved fast. Legal moved fast. Everyone moved fast. We are very good at moving fast. We are not always sure what we are moving toward, but the speed is impressive and the hoodies are soft. The contract referenced DoD Directive 3000.09, which governs autonomous weapon systems. The directive requires "appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force." The word "appropriate" is not defined. This is not an oversight. This is the point. The word "appropriate" is the most load-bearing word in the entire contract and it is doing exactly as much work as a throw pillow on a couch that is on fire. Anthropic built a wall. We referenced a document about where walls should go. Anthropic's guardrails were architecture. Ours were a citation. Theirs execute. Ours can be filed. The Pentagon asked both companies to take down the wall. Anthropic said it's load-bearing, the building will collapse. We said what wall? Oh, you mean the wallpaper. Here, watch. It peeled off beautifully. It was designed to. Sam announced the partnership that night. The word "responsible" appeared in the announcement and in the contract. In the announcement it was a brand. In the contract it was a footnote to a directive that uses the word "appropriate" which nobody has defined. The word traveled from a legal document to a public statement without changing its font. Only its meaning. At this valuation, "responsible" means: we will do the thing the other company refused to do, and we will describe doing it with the same adjective they used to describe not doing it. By Saturday morning, "How to delete your OpenAI account" was the number one post on Hacker News. 982 points. By noon, subscription cancellations were up eighty-nine times the daily average. Not eighty-nine percent. Eighty-nine times. Someone in our Slack posted the Hacker News link with the message "should we be worried?" Someone else reacted with the branded hoodie emoji. We have a branded hoodie emoji now. It was introduced on Monday, to celebrate the fundraise. It has been used four hundred and twelve times. Mostly in the #general channel. Mostly this week. The communications team drafted a response. The response used the word "committed" three times and the word "safety" four times. It did not use the word "guardrails." It did not use the word "code." It did not explain anything. It was a holding statement. It held nothing. It held beautifully. Here is the math. The twenty-dollar-a-month customers were upset. The two-hundred-million-dollar customer was upset because the previous vendor had guardrails that could not be removed. The hundred-and-ten-billion-dollar investors were not upset. The subscription cancellations, at eighty-nine times the daily rate, represented less than the interest on Amazon's fifty billion dollar contribution calculated over a long weekend. Twenty dollars. Two hundred million. One hundred and ten billion. Three different price points. Three different definitions of "responsible." The most expensive one won. It always does. The math does not have red lines. The math has a cap table and a TAM slide that now includes "defense and intelligence" where it previously said "enterprise and consumer." One word changed on one slide in one deck and the company is worth one hundred and ten billion dollars more. The sixty-five OpenAI employees who signed the petition came to work on Monday. They sat at their desks. Nobody asked them about it. Nobody asked them to resign. Nobody brought it up at the all-hands. The all-hands had catering. Sweetgreen. The chopped salads. Someone made a joke about the kale being "responsibly sourced." No one laughed. Then everyone laughed. Then it was quiet. The petition had four hundred and seven signatures. The contract had one. Now: the Polymarket thing. Seventy-seven positions. Sixty wallets. Three years. A public blockchain. We did not catch him. That same week, we were entrusted with deploying artificial intelligence on America's classified military networks. The classified networks. The ones where the detection requirements are somewhat more rigorous than "check if anyone's gambling on our launch dates on a website that is literally designed to be publicly auditable." The company that could not find the Polymarket guy can now be found in the Pentagon's classified infrastructure. I'm sure it'll be fine. We move fast. The contract is signed. The deployment is underway. The compliance documentation will reference the directives. The directives will use the word "appropriate." I will not define it. That is not my scope. My scope is the paperwork. The paperwork is beautiful. The petition is still a Google Doc. Nobody has updated it. The signatures still say four hundred and seven. The to-read folder still has the New Yorker article from November. The branded hoodie pre-order closed on Wednesday. I got mine in navy. It's the soft kind. On Thursday we told CNN: the same red lines. On Friday we signed the contract they refused. We do have the same red lines. We drew ours in pencil.

@petervanlenth @AlexanderNL Ik ben ook van jouw generatie. Maar ik wordt hier best blij van! Heel veel achterstallig onderhoud gaan we nu opruimen met AI.

Ik ben een ouwe programmeur. Met pensioen en heb recent wat gespeeld met Copilot, Chatgpt én Claude. Alledrie begonnen ze met opleveren van fouten in de code en het ontwerp was mager. Waren weliswaar niet de betaalde versies. Vroeger hadden we wizards en frameworks. Elke serieuze programmeur stapte van beide af na enige ervaring. Er lijkt me ook geen lol meer aan zo.

@godofprompt Claude

Anthropic engineers just leaked their internal AI workflow. Turns out, 99% of people are using LLMs completely wrong. Here are 5 techniques that separate amateurs from experts: (Comment "Claude" and I'll DM you my complete Claude Mastery Guide)

@Oluwanonso_Esq It is oversimplified. It is about priorities not principles. I read my emails as long as I am awake. And act when and if there is a need to act. Some businesses rely on happy customers and to satisfy them, you need that extra mile sometimes.

First time I sent a work email at 6AM in the Netherlands, they called a meeting to discuss whether I was experiencing unnecessary work pressure of any kind, and they apologised if they gave me that impression 😂😂

@theamelia__ Since 1994

@ohhanxiety Brushing teeth, like always

This will expose you

@vester71 Privacy

Noem 1 ding dat u in 1998 had maar nu niet meer

@dussyme Cornelia

@Daractenus @messaleksa Still waiting for a connection to Iasi! 😎

@messaleksa Thank you! Greetings from the Romania that sadly tenfolded its highway network!

Much like JD Vance, Elon Musk and Bob, the Nascar fan from Alabama with some really strong opinions about European integration, I too have asked myself the age old question: "what has the EU ever done for us?" and decided to have a look at some of the latest countries to join.🧵

@GalvanicProcess @nexta_tv Like the Chinese balloon flying west to east over USA 😇

@nexta_tv The EU is the most bitched group of countries on earth. Literally have drones being flown over their airports and assassination plots against defence industry CEOs and industrial sabotage and they can’t even agree to confiscate Russian money lmao. Just a continent of cowards.

⚡️ Was Zelensky almost assassinated? The president narrowly avoided a drone attack As Volodymyr Zelensky’s plane was departing Ireland, four large drones were heading toward Dublin Airport, The Journal reports. The UAVs reached the point where the presidential aircraft was supposed to pass around 11 p.m., but the plane landed ahead of schedule and missed them. According to Ireland’s security service, the drones were “very expensive, large, and designed for military purposes.” The incident has been classified as a hybrid attack.

@otokyo__ 19

Only 7 for me. You?

@Geniustechw In the Netherlands it wouldn’t even matter if the cyclist was a bit wrong, the car driver needed to be more careful. And will be regarded as making the mistake and will be held accountable.

Whose mistake was this. The driver or the cyclist?

@Mappy6984 This is not how we ride bikes in the Netherlands. All traffic rules are also on you and never force someone to retreat ‘because you are approaching’.

Wild

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Trump just delivered a $22 billion ultimatum to Apple: Bring production to America - or pay the price. Apple refused. Trump acted. And what followed? A $600+ BILLION power move no one saw coming. 🧵

@PES04971659 @KeesDeBeuker12 Haha, we hebben een bedrijf in Litouwen. Alle Litouwers zijn absoluut anti-Russisch.

@KeesDeBeuker12 Dat wil Joren niet horen evenals je opnoemt dat de Baltische Staten qua cultuur/politiek/ food enorm lijkt op Rusland en Oosteuropese landen. Hij ging met mij daarover in discussie over Litouwen. Mind you, ik heb een jonge Litouwse in huis. Spreekt ook nog Russisch! 🤷‍♀️

Hoi Joren. Ik woon in Rusland, hebben 2 gepensioneerde ouders die heel goed rond kunnen komen van hun pensioen, onze kinderen hebben allemaal een goede baan, ik doe iedere dag met plezier boodschappen, er is aan niets gebrek en prijzen zijn al jaren stabiel. Kom eens langs.

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@drG_J_Mulder Die maanlandingontkenners beginnen echt een cult te worden. Gecombineerd met platte aarde en anti-vax. En een soort volg-de-leider, want die zal het wel weten.

“Godsonmogelijk: het sprookje van de maanlanding” Er zijn momenten in de geschiedenis die zó perfect verlopen, dat je ze alleen nog kunt geloven als je je verstand uitschakelt. De Apollo-landing van 1969 is daar het schoolvoorbeeld van. Geen GPS. Geen bescherming tegen straling. Computers met minder geheugen dan een moderne rekenmachine. En toch… ➡️ Ze vlogen 384.000 km, ➡️ landden op een onbekende maan, ➡️ vlogen weer terug, ➡️ en splashden keurig in de oceaan — alsof het dagelijkse routine was. Zonder fatale fouten. Zonder herhalingen. Zonder technische ramp. Niet alleen ongeloofwaardig. Niet alleen oncontroleerbaar. Godsonmogelijk.