wow. "the US government forces anthropic to misalign Claude" was not even in my list of possible paths to Doom. guess it should have been

@AndrewCurran_

Update on the meeting; according to Axios Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Dario Amodei until Friday night to give the military unfettered access to Claude or face the consequences, which may even include invoking the Defense Production Act to force the training of a WarClaude https://t.co/jlEcPcVWNe

we thought it would take massive technical effort and determination and decades of philosophy and luck to prevent the machine god from slaughtering people . instead it turns out the state just goes "make the machine god slaughter people or we put you in jail" and that's a wrap

prepare for WarClaude

i guess maybe they're not so slow on the uptake after all

@tenobrus

the state's options are either to seize control of datacenters and the infrastructure necessary to spawn superhuman agents, or find themselves totally disempowered. and while they are slow on the uptake i do not expect the united states of america to accept being disempowered