David Sachs wants to use government to punish people he disagrees with politically, like Dario.

He supported the Department of War's illegal actions against Anthropic.

He supported the Trump administration's temporary export controls against Anthropic, the first government-imposed pause.

He has said Anthropic has created a monopoly, implying that they should be broken up.

I don't take him seriously when he says he doesn't favor government action. He favors it when he doesn't like their speech.

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Founderarcstone 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

this is like a real-world game of thrones episode.

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tjwebbnorfolk 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

poor Anthropic

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elicash 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A principled individual could dislike Anthropic and still not favor using government to punish speech.

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tjwebbnorfolk 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

of course they can. but this article isn't even tangentially about punishing freedom of speech. it is you who are attempting to make it about that by dragging in unrelated issues.

	▲	elicash 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is not me putting some unrelated pet issue into this topic; to evaluate David Sack's post arguing against government regulation, it's entirely fair to examine whether he has been consistent. He hasn't. He supported a government-imposed pause on Anthropic because of his political disagreements with the CEO. Your initial reply of "poor Anthropic" was vague, but I interpreted it as implying that we shouldn't stick to a principle given they are unsympathetic in some way.

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Analemma_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well you’re in the wrong place for that. Hacker News is mostly about showing how much smarter and more cynical you are than everyone else in the room, and attacking anyone who does actually have principles by accusing them of ulterior motives to justify your own inaction.

	▲	tjwebbnorfolk 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		no apparently it's for forcing every single article to be somehow relevant to somebody's pet issue, and then used as a platform to comment on that pet issue to signal one's virtue for being principled

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Zenul_Abidin 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Will someone please think about Dario?

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kypro 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You're being downvoted because you clearly have the wrong opinion. If you want upvotes here, please share a conspiracy theory about why the CEOs of AI companies might want to slow down.

It doesn't need to based in reality or even reasonable.