product owner https://teapaw.org/t.co/Iv73wVQYEC // formerly: @nzzlabs, @tageswoche (RIP), @schweizermonat, @20min (I like variety, you see)
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ThomNagy retweeted
I have been a loyal @OpenAI guy from day 1. I’ve had an account since they first released and used it daily since I think GPT 3.5.
Based on @sama’s move tonight to accept the DoD terms that Anthropic would not, I am removing all traces of Codex and OpenAI software from all devices.
I absolutely hate to do this and it’s going to really compromise my ability to be productive in the short term, but every possible alarm bell is going off at full blast in my head right now. This has the potential to be the most egregious incursion on privacy the world may have ever seen.
I think Sam just saw too many dollar signs and didn’t realize how obvious this move would make the optics but it’s clear to me now OpenAI is compromised. Not sure what the next step will be from here, but the trust is totally gone. Very disappointing.
ThomNagy retweeted
This is a huge opportunity for Europe. Welcome Anthropic with open arms. Roll out the red carpet. Visa for all employees.
Europe already controls the AI hardware bottleneck through ASML. Add the world's leading AI safety lab and you have the foundations of an AI superpower.
BREAKING: Anthropic CEO formally refuses to comply with the Department of War's demands.
44% chance they're banned from the supply chain.
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ThomNagy retweeted
Anthropic has been absolutely heroic.
Let's ALL switch to Claude today - not just because it's the best AI model (that the Pentagon WILL NOT have for mass surveillance + killer drones), but also because they are simply the good guys.
This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.
Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.
Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.
The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.
Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.
As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.
Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.
In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.
America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.
ThomNagy retweeted
It’s extremely good that Anthropic has not backed down, and it’s siginficant that OpenAI has taken a similar stance.
In the future, there will be much more challenging situations of this nature, and it will be critical for the relevant leaders to rise up to the occasion, for fierce competitors to put their differences aside. Good to see that happen today.
ThomNagy retweeted
The United States now playing the role that communist satellite states once played in the UN: sponsoring resolutions in its own name but on behalf of Moscow.
ThomNagy retweeted
After watching the racism dial turn further and further on this site, I decided to try and publicly make as definitive a case as I could. We're so far past the point of no return that I'm out of excuses for myself. Been a good 15+ year run. Bye! theatlantic.com/technology/a…
ThomNagy retweeted
This is a really big deal, under-the-radar.
The new Irish media commission has a real, simple, easy to implement plan for stopping addictive and dangerous algorithms: require them to default off.
People can opt-in, but start without the addictive algorithm manipulating you.
MEPs write to European Commission @ThierryBreton
& @Vestager asking for Irish @CNaM_ie rules against Big Tech's toxic algorithms to be applied across EU.
Bravo @paultang @Andreas_Schwab @karmel80 @repasi @SchaldemoseMEP @alexagiussaliba @kimvsparrentak @LeitaoMarquesEP...
ThomNagy retweeted
Die letzten Wochen haben mein Vertrauen in journalistische Standards hart erschüttert.
Jeden Tag sehe ich falsche/unbelegte Behauptungen. Von Journis unhinterfragt verbreitet, ohne jedes Gespür für Verantwortung
🧵mit paar Beispielen
(Bild: Mein Gesichtsausdruck seit 4 Wochen)
ThomNagy retweeted
It’s striking how many family members of Israelis who were murdered or kidnapped are asking the government not to use their grief to kill more people. It seems to me that if in the worst days of their lives they can keep their humanity, the rest of us can follow their example.
This is my third post here in all of 2023. Sadly it‘s another one in the quickly growing exodus genre. So find me over there:
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Thread.
I finished teaching a course on evil last Thursday. The last reading we discussed was Hannah Arendt’s “Thinking and Moral Considerations.” In the essay Arendt asks how politics can become so divorced from reality as to destroy our sense of moral judgment.
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ThomNagy retweeted
❤️🔥A new essay
I try to answer the questions: what does the DTC brand deluge of the 2010s all amount to?
And how do we respond to the designed cultures, connected cults, and digital faiths that are superseding brands today?
This is life after lifestyle
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ThomNagy retweeted
“This event is completely unprecedented and upended our expectations about the Antarctic climate system,” washingtonpost.com/weather/2…
ThomNagy retweeted
Should platforms such as FB, Google, YouTube be allowed to subject material from "press publications" broadly conceived (including your favorite sources but many others too) to content moderation-as some have, whether from Aftenposten, NY Post, Sky News Australia, or Sputnik? 1/9
ThomNagy retweeted
Aus der heutigen @NZZ, Gespräch mit dem Infektiologen Nicolas Müller vom Unispital Zürich: “Wir haben praktisch keine Geimpften bei uns. Es wäre so einfach.”
Let that sink in.
