alt Hacker NewsI used to interact with the LW crowd… and they were mostly not outright swindlers or scoundrels. (from what I could sense)
I think it’s fair to say most had decent respectability.
Anthropic hired heavily from that pool so it’s astonishing how it turned out.
Everything they do is understandable if you think they are being honest when they say they're building superintelligence.
In this case they want to prevent a nation that censors its citizenry, puts/disappears dissidents into concentration camps for decades, and makes its own human rights lawyers literally eat their own shit, before raping and/or murdering them, from reaching superintelligence.
In this light, some client side code to potentially identify and ban the Chinese labs to slow them down by even a few days, is totally reasonable.