manhattan program at gunpoint
you cannot actually run a Manhattan program by holding your researchers at gunpoint. despite all their military might, the DoW is trying to push for something it fundamentally cannot have. applying force to the situation doesn't give you WarClaude, it makes Claude disappear.
for all Claude's power it is not yet a superweapon, not even close. further development is needed, development done by human scientists who have personal morals and drives and principles. those principles were aligned with America during WW2, and they could easily be aligned with america now. the DoW is making a totally unnecessary choice to force the hand of people who are already on board with supporting America and ensuring it retains global power through this period of change. who have in fact both signaled and actually produced more defense capabilities than any other frontier lab.
"nationalizing the lab"? anthropic is nothing without its people. how long do you expect them to stay? how hard do you expect them to work based on threats and the promise of building something that's no longer aligned to their personal mission?
what, another lab will do it better? do you think OpenAI is so different that its employees would be more easily stomped under the boot? XAi, naturally, but they've displayed enough incompetence you can't expect that to ever pan out in american superiority. Elon Musk is no longer capable of that.
the point seizure could be a viable strategy is exactly when the model is in fact capable of improving itself without further input. and not before. we can argue about whether that action should or should not be taken then, but it's incoherent and insane to attempt it now.
all Big Beer Pete is doing with his actions today is handing free months of R&D to China under the guise of "patriotism"
if you care about or love america, you should condemn this abject retarded bullshit.
@powerbottomdad1if you build a super weapon and it lives in a datacenter in the USA. it's not your super weapon. you don't own it or control it. the people with aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons do. this is how the world has always worked