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lebovictoday at 5:58 PM1 replyview on HN

> If you think that the courage that Dario has regularly shown would be possible with a conventional "best practices" structure, I think you're kidding yourself.

Is there something that happened which you don't think would have come to pass with a standard PBC/C-Corp (without the LTBT)? I'm trying to think of one, but nothing is coming to mind.

I think the structure attracted many people to Anthropic (e.g. an RSP that could only be overridden by the LTBT), but I'm not sure it has demonstrated a practical impact.

As an aside, I think a lot about this problem too! But the answers that don't reduce to something like "the people, and the people to whom they give power" seem to break down when I look closely.


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skybriantoday at 6:16 PM

Do you think their dispute with the Department of Defense would have gone the same way? We didn't see that at OpenAI or Google.

(Although it does remind me a bit of Google pulling out of China back in the day.)

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