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johndhitoday at 1:07 PM3 repliesview on HN

both can be true:

-the US gov't is stupid and overly aggressive and absurd

-Anthropic for reasons no one can quite conceive keeps describing every product release of theirs as an imminent threat to civilization (and simultaneously keeps pushing the market forward as fast as they possibly can).


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cubefoxtoday at 1:15 PM

They never said Mythos was an imminent threat to civilization. You are constructing a straw man.

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KPGv2today at 2:50 PM

By the pigeonhole principle, "mostly A" and "mainly B" cannot both be true if A and B are not the same entity

psychoslavetoday at 1:25 PM

>no one can quite conceive

Isn’t it like their main goal is attention capture, and existential threat is extremely effective at capturing human attention? Combine that with the "There is no such thing as bad publicity" mindset, and this explain it all, doesn’t it?

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/there-is-no-such-thing-a...