Comment by sourcegrift

18 hours ago

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> your TDS

Wat?

  • DESPERATELY trying to insinuate that the only possible reason to acknowledge that many people find distasteful the association between OpenAI and the desire for autonomous killbots MUST be that people are being unfair to Trump because of mental illness.

    • Oh, Trump Derangement Syndrome. I found a utility in Wisconsin and was really trying to find the connection…

      I guess to address the point, having a problem with Hegseth isn’t the same as having a problem with Trump. And given some of Trump’s administration is embracing e.g. Mythos, it seems unfair to characterize Dario v. Hegseth as anything broader.

      There was a recent moment when OpenAI went from the uncontested darling of consumer and investing America, to being second place to Anthropic. It happened rapidly, and I saw it at least on the investor side in the weekend after the supply-chain risk designation. (Disclosure: that’s also the week I signed up for Claude, in part out of protest, but mostly to see what the fuss was about.) I think there is a lesson for anyone working with startups or in tech from this example—it may be one of the most violent strategic sea changes I’ve seen in a while.

  • Hegseth represents existing military priorities. The original comment presents the issue as if it's isolated to a single administrator.

    It wouldn't call it TDS but it does project a severe political blind spot.