sarker
ketman hetman
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sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
The risk isn't from a nuclear explosion, it's from an explosion that scatters nuclear material which is way more likely in a rocket than a bomb.
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ketman hetman
2d ago
Is there any way for Iran to credibly promise not to get a nuclear weapon in the foreseeable future?
Lots of countries make their facilities open to IAEA inspectors. South Africa was declared to have fully dismantled its nuclear stockpile upon inspections. The USSR and USA inspected each others' facilities as part of arms reductions treaties. Etc.
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ketman hetman
3d ago
Feminism has nothing to do with the fact that low status men are an object of derision everywhere and there are more men than women in Iran in every age bracket up to about age 55.
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ketman hetman
3d ago
Yeah, thats Anthropics side of the story
None of this is contradicted by the DoD.
Also, someone needs to tell Anthropic they are roughly 40 years too late on the autonomous systems thing.
Aegis is irrelevant here. As they said:
today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons.
Their objection is not to "software being capable of killing on its own" and I'm a little surprised that you apparently haven't even read the two page press release before formulating an opinion.
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ketman hetman
4d ago
Anthropic does not operate those data centers, so it remains unclear how they could suddenly pull the plug.
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ketman hetman
4d ago
Their only real lever is to cut off access, and that could happen without warning in a way that gets people killed.
They are not serving Claude from AWS for use in highly privileged environments, so it's not clear how this could be done. The question is one of model alignment.
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ketman hetman
4d ago
Contracts are not public. However -
However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do. Two such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now.
To our knowledge, these two exceptions have not been a barrier to accelerating the adoption and use of our models within our armed forces to date.
The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries, never before applied to an American company—and to invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards’ removal.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
They've already got contracts, the DoD isn't happy and is trying to strongarm them into a broader contract.
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ketman hetman
4d ago
If they're unenforceable, why did the contract get terminated? Presumably, the mechanism of enforcement is the alignment of the model itself. It's more like, Glock made a gun that only fires in certain circumstances and you claim that this is void. Okay, if it's void, go ahead and do it. Oh, you can't?
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ketman hetman
4d ago
I admire your commitment to "nothing ever happens" even in the face of overwhelming odds.
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ketman hetman
5d ago
he's then going to come to Amodei and say "give it to me or I'll take it", and Amodei's going to give it to him.
He already had it. Now he's saying he doesn't want it after all. I don't think he's gonna get it.
I wonder how true this is. Looking at the richest men in America:
Musk: Started his first company in 1995 with about $60k of capital in 2026 dollars and seemed to just bootstrap his success from that. His dad famously owned an emerald mine, but there's conflicting reports about how much money that actually brought in and he was estranged from his dad.
Larry Ellison: mildly shitty childhood, raised by aunt and uncle, started his business with $11k starting capital in 2025 dollars, of which he personally invested about $6k. Not a multimillionaire and didn't come from money as far as I can tell.
Zucc: professional parents, high status schools, probably UMC or LUC. It's not clear how much starting capital Facebook requires from a cursory skim, but I can't imagine it was a lot considering its humble beginnings. He had a parental safety net, but certainly wasn't a multi millionaire.
Jeff Bezos: born to a teenage mother (high school student) and father (an alcoholic "Danish unicyclist"). Later adopted by a Cuban stepfather (petroleum engineer). I guess his mom's dad was a regional director of the atomic energy commission? Bezos had a successful professional career after college and started Amazon with $600k of capital in 2025 dollars from his parents.
Larry Page: college professor parents. High status summer schools. Got some seed funding for basic equipment and then managed to attract bigger investors with demos of the technology.
I don't really think that any of these people were only in a position to take risks from having millions already. Bezos is probably the closest thing to this given the size of the investment his parents put in (although it's a mystery to me where they got that money from in the first place). The most you can say for the rest of these is that their lives wouldn't have been over had their businesses not succeeded and they could have moved in with their parents or something - but that goes for a lot of people, not just multi millionaires.
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