alt Hacker NewsNot sure why you're getting downvoted, or why the narrative here is all about this being payback for the Department of Whatever-the-fuck thing.
Dario has been spouting how his models are too dangerous, thinking he was playing 3D chess and got owned from my perspective. And there's the possiblility of insider plays by the current administration w/ OpenAI or SpaceX.
But Dario was running his own propaganda machine and gave them enough rope to do this.
Maybe just focusing on building solid models and running a business was the play, not trying for regulatory capture and being anti-competitive.
> or why the narrative here is all about this being payback
The 'narrative' is focused on the corruption because government corruption is a big deal! Even when it's not truly surprising, and even when you have no sympathy for the (immediate) losers, it should be somewhat shocking, or else what are we even doing here.
You talk about Anthropic giving the government 'enough rope' and getting 'owned', which seems like a tacit acknowledgement that the government does not give a shit about whatever the surface-level justification for this ban is. And you even explicitly acknowledge "the possiblility of insider plays by the current administration w/ OpenAI or SpaceX". What level of cynicism/tribalism are you on, that you don't see this as obviously the main story here?