alt Hacker News> Remind me again how good this administration is at upholding norms?
When it comes to killing and spying on people with flimsy justifications that's a pretty bipartisan norm. Hell, Anthropic isn't even saying they won't help the DoW do just that, they just want to make sure there's a human in the loop.
The "USA Freedom Act" [1], which made most of the Patriot act permanent, had bipartisan support.
I'm all for reversing the continual ramp up of the police state and the industrial military complex. We need to recognize, however, that it's being funded and pushed by both parties. Generally playing on fears of the scary other. (Muslim terrorists in 00s, Mexicans today).
You’ve egregiously misread me. I spelled out the norm that the DoW would be violating if they decided to make good on their threats.
> Usually it doesn’t, because of a “norm” that says the private defense sector runs more smoothly when the government doesn’t try to micromanage it.
My comment has nothing to do with Anthropic’s “moral” or “ethical” stance.
I also don’t see the point in both-siding this. The situation at hand is before Hegseth and Trump. I can’t even remember Biden’s SecDef’s name.