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The whole article reads as virtue signaling to me. Anthropic already has large defense contracts. Their models are already being used by the military. There's r
by RyanShook 7mo ago
The whole article reads as virtue signaling to me. Anthropic already has large defense contracts. Their models are already being used by the military. There's really no statement here.
- fragmede 7mo agoIsn't it nice to have virtues to signal though? In saying that, you're saying you don't have any worth signaling over.
- flufluflufluffy 7mo agoNot when your actions don’t align with your professed virtues.
- TOMDM 7mo agoA company being asked to violate their virtues refuses, and then communicates that to reestablish their commitment to said virtues? Tell me more about what they should do if a virtue signal in such a situation is a nothing statement.
- noelsusman 7mo agoThe notion that it's bad to signal virtue is one of the crazier propaganda efforts I've seen over the last 20 years or so.
- manmal 7mo agoIt’s a manipulative tactic. Businesses have no soul and no conscience.
- beanshadow 7mo agoIt's arguable that businesses are subject to the same morality-inducing processes that humans are. For example, as a human (with a soul?) what is at risk when we do something immoral? I see it to be a reputational cost at the highest level. Morality could be viewed from the perspective that it increases predictability/coherence in society (generates less heat).
- manmal 7mo agoIf societal feedback is the only thing keeping a human from deviating in catastrophic ways, that’s what we call a sociopath.
- MattRix 7mo agoThe humans working there do. To state otherwise is to absolve those humans of any responsibility.
- reasonableklout 7mo agoHow is it virtue signalling when sticking by these principles risks their entire business being destroyed by either being declared a supply chain risk or nationalized?