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I see it too, but worth noting that this is basically unprecedented at least within the last 25 years; I think you have to go back to export controlled cryptogr
by tptacek 4mo ago
I see it too, but worth noting that this is basically unprecedented at least within the last 25 years; I think you have to go back to export controlled cryptography for another example of this kind of abrupt and targeted regulation.
- martinjc 4mo agoA real headscratcher isn't it? And from a government that is supposedly priding itself on small government. How should companies navigate this? What's the framework they should operate within?
- heylook 4mo agoSmall governments don't deploy thousands of military troops into their own cities.
- shimman 4mo ago[flagged]
- newfriend 4mo agoOne of the few roles a "small government" should actually take on is defending from invaders.
- oblio 4mo agoWhich invaders? Has the Iran War taken a 180 degree turn?
- sph 4mo agoUntil a few minutes ago, Iran did technically win the war.
- thewebguyd 4mo agoGood grief. I hadn't been watching reddit or the news today so you had me go check. Should've known. Friday at market close on the dot. So much for that deal huh.
- drnick1 4mo agoOh yes, the country that lost basically all its navy, air force, a large number of military facilities and couldn't defend its airspace. Iran won a lot indeed!
- booleandilemma 4mo ago[dead]
- oblio 4mo agoThis comment doesn't work as well considering my implication was an invasion of US soil.
- sph 4mo agoI know, I wasn’t disagreeing
- jeremyjh 4mo agoAre the invaders in the room with us right now?
- windexh8er 4mo agoThey look to be in control.
- newfriend 4mo agoThey are in the US with us, and you want to give them amnesty.
- NonHyloMorph 4mo agoYou are misled/misleading. Get informed about the political theory of domestic deployment of troops for the purpose of policing in western democracues. Look how those who speak for the U.S. military personell (former generals, the editorial of that magazine they produce in the U.S. army prior to being pruned) if you need some motivation.
- newfriend 4mo agoI don't need to be spoonfed opinions. I can see millions of illegal aliens living in my country.
- outside1234 4mo agoIt's almost like he expects bribes to release the model, but I'm just being paranoid.
- exe34 4mo agoAnthropic peace prize coming up next.
- babypuncher 4mo agoThis whole administration is absolutely rampant with corruption. Just yesterday we had JD Vance on TV saying that if Watergate happened today, it would just be a 12 hour news story, because they are getting away with so much worse. Anyone who denies or defends this administration's corruption is complicit.
- cramer4next 4mo ago[flagged]
- NamlchakKhandro 4mo ago[flagged]
- mexicocitinluez 4mo agoCan you point to examples in the past of a sitting US president pardoning the people who broke into a government building and tried to overthrow an election? Or one who accepted bribes for pardons? Started an unregulated cash exchange we can get accept money from foreign governments without oversight? What about giving their family members no-bid defense contracts?
- idiotsecant 4mo agoThe most important part of the mafia state is making everyone else a participant. It enforces your personal power and once in the system those parties will do things they would never imagine doing when they were outside of it.
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- dboreham 4mo agoIt's only small government when they are trying to not give money to some group they don't like.
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- kommunicate 4mo agoClaiming the mantle of "small government" was simply an exercise in marketing to relax regulation meant to prevent bribery and corruption. In practice, the current slate of government officials believes in absolute control of whatever they want whenever they want. It's a mirror case of the supposed "free speech absolutists" who immediately turned around and silenced, sued, fired or jailed once granted the power to do so.
- groundzeros2015 4mo agoWhen has Trump or his administration said they were about small government? Are you confusing them with Paul Ryan?
- jrajav 4mo agoThis was certainly the rallying cry behind DOGE and the general push to rip the entrails out of many federal agencies. Combatting "waste" and "inefficiency," with strong implications that most of what those agencies do is pointless government meddling. Whether he's actually driving towards small government with that or anything else - in the good-faith spirit of that policy - that's definitely up for debate.
- groundzeros2015 4mo agoNo I’m asking if ever said he was for small government. From 2015 Trump has positioned himself as opposed to that style of republicanism. He offered a different playbook and the base followed. What is happening is 40-50+ year olds haven’t updated their map of reality and continue to use talking political points from when they were 25. One of the critiques of small government is its valueless. Instead of having to argue for or against positions you just say you don’t like it because it’s out of scope. Well now the inverse thing is happening in this thread. People are just saying he’s in violation of a small government principle he never espoused.
- dualvariable 4mo agoNot a headscratcher at all, if you understand how our economy and politics are actually run.
- peder 4mo agoI don't think Trump has ever said he's in favor of a small govt
- throwawayqqq11 4mo agoDoge and project 2025 ... There is one major reason why oligarchs are in favor of small government, when it's in their way. Another commenter said it already: it's only about power.
- tehlike 4mo agorelease the weights! freedom of speech!
- jdiff 4mo agoWhose speech? Nobody with the weights is trying to speak them.
- tehlike 4mo agoit was a joke.
- mrngld 4mo agoYeah, that's what we need, frontier intelligence models open in the wild that, if a jailbreak is reliably established, there's no possibility for anyone to ever patch at the API layer. Because there is no API layer.
- tptacek 4mo ago"This stack of 15.3 million t-shirts is a munition."
- WesBrownSQL 4mo agoMunitions exporting. I fondly remember the PGP feasco. I spent years using PGP to encrypt my emails to several people who refused to use email without it. Good times.
- shimman 4mo ago[flagged]
- drcongo 4mo agoNazism?
- jameshart 4mo agoWe’ve seen more examples recently. TikTok, wireless routers, polestar cars…
- boelboel 4mo agoHuawei, Foreign gambling sites were banned on dubious reasons in 2006 (in reality American companies weren't as competitive and las Vegas needed to be protected), Japanese electronic tariffs in the 80s/90s ... US never exactly believe in full on 'free trade'.
- smallmancontrov 4mo agoThe US believed in free trade precisely when the politically connected needed labor arbitrage, and protectionism exactly when the politically connected needed protection. The pretense of underlying ideals was never more than a political tool - political economy was always political.
- coffeemug 4mo agoIt depends on whether you believe US action is overdetermined, but I think if Trump didn’t get elected we would have continued on the path of free trade. His election wasn’t predestined. He had just the right mix of features to win at the time, but if this basket of features didn’t exist it’s not hard to imagine the country going down a very different path.
- smallmancontrov 4mo agoIf we had continued on the path of free trade without "dealing in" those displaced by free trade, the pressure would have continued to grow. It certainly could have exploded in a different direction, at a different time, with a different champion, but so long as it was repressed instead of addressed it was always destined to explode.
- coffeemug 4mo ago
- jopsen 4mo agoCompetent government wouldn't do this either... ...also why I think it won't last. Doubtful it'd hold in court; this admin would have to show that it's not corruption, because we'd all assume otherwise.
- paulsutter 4mo agoBetween $5-10T of the US economy is subject to export controls. Nobody disputes that Mythos is dual-use technology, which means it has been export controlled since the day it was created. Companies are responsible for demonstrating criteria to export (for example) a nerfed version (Fable) of an export controlled item (Mythos) Nothing here is novel, unusual, capricious, or … fascisistic.
- rangestransform 4mo agoWe saw what happened with banning nvidia flagship compute GPU exports to China; it just spurred them to develop a domestic semiconductor industry while still importing black market GPUs at a minor markup. The US would do well to keep the world dependent on American products that are under the jurisdiction of the US government, and can therefore be regulated or killswitched. All this will do is allow China to have flagship model capabilities without being subject to the US at all.