You don’t remember the concept of thought crime in 1984? Or you don’t recall how thought crime gets you branded an enemy of the state? The former was a term literally introduced in 1984 and the thought police is tasked with locating and eliminating thought crime. Throughout the book there are news reports of the thought criminals caught and arrested who are now enemies of the state. The book ends with him being tortured until he completely succumbs to the thought control and is then murdered.

If you can’t see the allegory in that story to an administration that actively goes after those it labels as enemies because they dare to voice their own opinion or oppose their political goals in any way, either you’re not cut out for literary analysis and trying to apply metaphors in literature to the real world or you aren’t seeing the real world for what it is.

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kolbe 2 days ago | parent [-]

Didn't label them an "enemy." Didn't accuse them of crime. And the decree was due to Anthropic's actions--not their thoughts.

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vlovich123 2 days ago | parent [-]

Ok, just labeling them a supply chain risk while also claiming they’re critical to national security for insisting the government stick to the powers to the model they agreed to in the contract and not expanding it.

> Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.

Yup, definitely not an enemy.

> Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity

Don’t you call your friends duplicitous?

> Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles.

Oh boy. Doubleplus ungood.

> 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

Oh yeah, totally not an enemy. Just no one can do business with them. Doubleplusungood behavior.

They’re both a danger to US troops with their behavior and also critical to the supply chain of said troops. Very important to understand and accept that doublethink.

	▲	kolbe 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		This doesn't require the slightest bit of doublethink. Their technology is fantastic and would be an important military tool if Anthropic allowed it to be used as such. Their choice to disallow it makes them a supply chain risk, but the existence of the technology makes them important. This isn't hard.