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monkaijutoday at 12:05 AM2 repliesview on HN

Always surprised when these "smart people" didn't see these things coming from several years away... Its honestly hard for me to believe it.

Going to work for these big SV corps is and always has been directly in service of US empire, that's literally what built the valley in the first place.


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conartist6today at 12:10 AM

Haha that's what I thought, but my thought was that I can't believe Sam Altman didn't see a serious backlash coming when Anthropic rejected a contract saying "the only two things we won't do are mass surveillance and autonomous killer drones" and within 6 hours Sam was all over that.

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pan69today at 12:35 AM

It's easier to defer principled decision making to the future while you can rake in the cash in the meantime.

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