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@UnderSecretaryF @tszzl @DeptofWar That is not the question. If the gov couldn’t provide the guarantees Anthropic was looking for then Anthropic said it would not provide its services. That’s its right in a free country. This is about the gov abusing its power to punish a private actor for not doing what it wants.

For the avoidance of doubt, the OpenAI - @DeptofWar contract flows from the touchstone of “all lawful use” that DoW has rightfully insisted upon & xAI agreed to. But as Sam explained, it references certain existing legal authorities and includes certain mutually agreed upon safety mechanisms. This, again, is a compromise that Anthropic was offered, and rejected. Even if the substantive issues are the same there is a huge difference between (1) memorializing specific safety concerns by reference to particular legal and policy authorities, which are products of our constitutional and political system, and (2) insisting upon a set of prudential constraints subject to the interpretation of a private company and CEO. As we have been saying, the question is fundamental—who decides these weighty questions? Approach (1), accepted by OAI, references laws and thus appropriately vests those questions in our democratic system. Approach (2) unacceptably vests those questions in a single unaccountable CEO who would usurp sovereign control of our most sensitive systems. It is a great day for both America’s national security and AI leadership that two of our leading labs, OAI and xAI have reached the patriotic and correct answer here 🇺🇸

@wirelyss @RobS142 Anthropic is doing exactly what you said is fair and the government’s response is: “I’ll destroy you if you don’t sell this to me.” It’s pretty obvious who is in the wrong.

It’s not a misrepresentation. I just think there’s a difference between selling a product, selling a product = you endorse every use of it, and selling a product only on the condition you can monitor of its usage to be sure you approve of it I think it’s reasonable for the military to not want to have their use dictated by a supplier. Also think it’s fair for a company to not want to supply and not be forced to

Prob oversimplifying the Anthropic vs dept of war situation but: If you are a screw supplier, and the military wants to use your screws, can you reasonably dictate what they can/ can not use the screws for depending on your morals and not the actual limits of the product?

@PalmerLuckey Do you believe in America? The constitution protects our *inalienable* rights, including the right to property and contract, and primarily protects us against the tyrannical usurpation of those rights by the government. Are you on the side of the usurpers?

This gets to the core of the issue more than any debate about specific terms. Do you believe in democracy? Should our military be regulated by our elected leaders, or corporate executives? Seemingly innocuous terms from the latter like "You cannot target innocent civilians" are actually moral minefields that lever differences of cultural tradition into massive control. Who is a civilian and not? What makes them innocent or not? What does it mean for them to be a "target" vs collateral damage? Existing policy and law has very clear answers for these questions, but unelected corporations managing profits and PR will often have a very different answer. Imagine if a missile company tried to enforce the above policy, that their product cannot be used to target innocent civilians, that they can shut off access if elected leaders decide to break those terms. Sounds, good, right? Not really - in addition to the value judgement problems I list above, you also have to account for questions like: -What level of information, classified and otherwise, does the corporation receive that would allow them to make these determinations? How much leverage would they have to demand more? -What if an elected President merely threatens a dictator with using our weapons in a certain way, ala Madman Theory/MAD? Is the threat seen as empty because the dictator knows the corporate executives will cut off the military? Is the threat enough to trigger the cutoff? How might either of those determinations vary if the current corporate executive happens to like the dictator or dislike the President? -At what level of confidence does the cutoff trigger, both in writing and in reality? The fact that this is a debate over AI does not change the underlying calculus. The same problems apply to definitions and use of ethically fraught but important capabilities like surveillance systems or autonomous weapons. It is easy to say "But they will have cutouts to operate with autonomous systems for defensive use!", but you immediately get into the same issues and more - what is autonomous? What is defensive? What about defending an asset during an offensive action, or parking a carrier group off the coast of a nation that considers us to be offensive? At the end of the day, you have to believe that the American experiment is still ongoing, that people have the right to elect and unelect the authorities making these decisions, that our imperfect constitutional republic is still good enough to run a country without outsourcing the real levers of power to billionaires and corpos and their shadow advisors. I still believe. And that is why "bro just agree the AI won't be involved in autonomous weapons or mass surveillance why can't you agree it is so simple please bro" is an untenable position that the United States cannot possibly accept.

@boztank @ryaneshea The primary example of “democratic correction of national security overreach” they cite is the NSA spying on Americans, which was brought to the People’s attention by ..*checks notes*.. the biggest illegal leak in American history. Truly the system working properly

"You Should Have Moral Qualms about Anthropic's Qualms" thefreedomfrequency.org/p/905edaf0-763…

@RichardHanania This is absolutely the case. Right populists rail against immigration, offshoring, etc because they haven’t developed the human capital to be successful in the modern economy and therefore demand “predistribution” / protectionism on the basis of identity. They’re just losers.

Anti-immigration types like to talk about how "they" built America because they are white. A maladjusted loser who sits in his basement all day scratching himself gets to feel superior to a tech CEO. I'm reminded of Ayn Rand's essay on racism The overwhelming majority of racists are men who have earned no sense of personal identity, who can claim no individual achievement or distinction, and who seek the illusion of a “tribal self-esteem” by alleging the inferiority of some other tribe. Observe the hysterical intensity of the Southern racists; observe also that racism is much more prevalent among the poor white trash than among their intellectual betters. Also, racists don't only hurt members of other races. They always want to restrict the freedom of members of their own group. When men began to be indoctrinated once more with the notion that the individual possesses no rights, that supremacy, moral authority and unlimited power belong to the group, and that a man has no significance outside his group—the inevitable consequence was that men began to gravitate toward some group or another, in self-protection, in bewilderment and in subconscious terror. The simplest collective to join, the easiest one to identify—particularly for people of limited intelligence—the least demanding form of “belonging” and of “togetherness” is: race. You can see the inherent relationship between racism and collectivism in the way that anti-immigration types talk about jobs. It's something that society gives you on account of your identity, not something people give to you because you earn it on account of your identity. They won't stop by excluding Indians.

@Lan_Dao_ Next iteration put it over some Robuchon-like purée de pomme de terre

@exodus_io Has a root cause (or likely root cause) been identified yet? Are you auditing for potentially vulnerable libraries used in the app?

Re: yesterday's Solana exploit, there are no reported cases at this time for our customers. We are monitoring the situation and we will keep you updated. Your crypto is secure with Exodus. 🔒

@Mealsandeals @gainzxbt Kudos, ser, this is an excellent list

@gainzxbt Mamas Too Best Pizza (williamsburg) Prince street Pizza Emily WV Grimaldi's Leo Emmy squared Una Pizza Robertas Joe & Pat's pizza Speedy Romeo Sauce John's of Bleeker Street Joe's Pizza Scarrs Pizza Pizza Suprema Patsy's Pizza L'industrie

me when im not in new york: “joes pizza is my favorite pizza spot” new yorkers: “lmao fking tourist” me when i AM in new york: “what’s the best pizza spot?” new yorkers: “joes pizza” … wtf

@gainzxbt @mdudas If you go to Bleecker St get the Nona slice. Then go to John's, then Joe's. All are on the same block. If you go to Rubirosa you can also it hit up Upside, which is right next to it and also very good. John's and Rubirosa don't do slices though

@mdudas :DDD

k let me reiterate best thin slice of pizza, so not prince st we have that in miami and it makes u gain 30 lbs every time u eat it nice try ct but im not turning into the fat gainzy meme

@pmarca Half of the board of supervisors - the body largely responsible for the city s lack of progress - is on the ballot in November. Help throw cash and awareness at candidates that will get us out of the mess!

The streets of Gotham in “The Batman” are noticeably cleaner and less violent than real world San Francisco.

@HaileyLennonBTC The vast majority of your taxes go to making sure your parents/grandparents have healthcare and a modest amount of income, and towards maintaining US hegemony through our military, which has a variety of benefits. If you don't thing those are good uses ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In my 33 years of living I have yet to see my tax dollars be put to good use. Im guessing I never will.

@gakonst If all you need to do is run a DAG of sql queries, use a CDP to dump raw data into something like snowflake then use DBT creat your warehouse/marts. If you need to do arbitrary computations or move data to / from other dbs use managed airflow.

data engineering twitter: custom warehousing solution (e.g. python that fetches data from API -> dumps it to gcloud/s3 buckets/snowflake, run over cron/airflow) vs out of the box stuff like fivetran/stitch?

@ConstitutionDAO is the only option now to redeem claimed $PEOPLE for $ETH? Claimed the tokens but they're not showing up in my wallet

@KyleBowe4 @NeerajKA It can be bought for pennies on the dollar and absolutely should be done.

@NeerajKA DebtDAO

what are some other things DAOs should buy

@NeerajKA Debt. Buy student loan and medical debt and retire it. The Debt Collective (@StrikeDebt) has been doing this very successfully and a DAO could bring it to another level

@anothercohen @danielrhodes Half of the board of supervisors, all but one of which are progs, are up for re-election in ‘22. @GrowSF will have a great voter guide and use you can use your platform to get the word out!

@danielrhodes And as a moderate I can help vote for fewer terrible progressive policies!

@davecraige @coinbase Yeah, looking through the @Coinbase help docs the best explanation I could come up with was issues with their Avalanche node. The (pretty unhelpful) status page says Avalanche "operational" but it doesn't provide any other stats

@davecraige In the same boat right now. Sent a test transaction and it went through in seconds. Followed up with a larger withdrawal and now it's stuck in pending. Both MM and CBP are on C-chain so this shouldn't be an issue. Will reply if I figure it out but update us if you get it working!