In other words, "Look how she was dressed, she was asking for it."

This argument is BS, it has everything to do with Anthropic's resistance to the DoD's strongarm tactics in trying to force their desired contract terms on them.

Not quite. They were running around shouting “look how much of a danger we might be!”, so more akin to them actively saying “we want it, come and give it to us” than to just looking a particular way.

Though they aren't the only company to play that game, so there is probably more to it than just that. OpenAI's president giving millions to MAGA Inc and them not getting the same treatment might not be complete coincidences.

Important to note, OpenAI vs Anthropic are both assholes in different orthogonals.

In times like these, i think its important to track whats happening the way we track entropy.

That is: theres far >> more ways to be an asshole than well behaved.

That doesnt mean we can equate assholes, but the question is which states of entropy are annealable and which are not.

I posit Altman is not. Amodei is a open question.

Actually, it's the opposite. Anthropic were trying to strongarm the DoD into getting a seat at the table.

Yup