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Comment by EnPissant

3 days ago

Pay? This is the best marketing they could have hoped for.

Yup, getting Cartmanland marketing vibes here. “It’s the best theme park ever, and you can’t come!” does wonders for creating demand.

I wouldn’t the surprised if all this were actually orchestrated, it all seems too convenient.

  • Doubtful. Fable 5 is insanely good it’ll sell itself. No need for unscrupulous advertising tactics.

    What is a “foreign national” is more what I’m wondering. Like is it a “Non-US Citizen”? Do US citizens abroad count?

    • Foreign national is anyone who doesn't have legally recognized citizenship of the USA. So citizens living abroad aren't barred, nor would dual citizens be.

    • > What is a “foreign national” is more what I’m wondering.

      The following quoted text is from the Definitions section of 8 USC § 1101, which is reproduced at [0]. (Though, you will probably have to scroll up a bit to be able to read subsection (a)(21), which is the thing I'm linking to.)

        (21) The term “national” means a person owing permanent allegiance to a state.
        (22) The term “national of the United States” means (A) a citizen of the United States, or (B) a person who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States.
        (23) The term “naturalization” means the conferring of nationality of a state upon a person after birth, by any means whatsoever.
      

      From this, it's fairly clear that a "foreign national" is someone owing permanent allegiance to a foreign (that is, non-US) state. What's not immediately clear to me is whether a US citizen can also be a "foreign national", [1] and how that would affect access to things from which foreign nationals are barred. [2]

      EDIT: For a more official source of this information, you might be able to check out [3] and/or [4]. After examining and interacting with those pages, one might see why one might go to an unofficial source for casual inspection of this information.

      [0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1101#a_21

      [1] I think they can be.

      [2] I'm very uncertain.

      [3] <https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...>

      [4] <https://uscode.house.gov/browse/prelim@title8/chapter12/subc...>

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There is a chance they'll lose on some income if it takes longer.

Unfortunately there also a possibility this what they intentionally wanted to try regulatory capture to get rid of competitors.

  • Anthropic has been angling for regulatory capture this entire time, to an even greater extent than OpenAI.

    • Y’all really have convinced yourselves that people in the industry are far, far smarter than they are, and far more manipulative than they are.

      You see the state of the country and you think it’s a nefarious master plan instead of a bunch of opportunistic people taking advantage of an overworked, overstimulated populace who forget to vote or believe stupid slogans on TV.

      Nobody is doing this intentionally. Have you not paid attention to how quickly idiot stuff gets found out????

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I also do not understand this. Now they are labelled as precious US tech that could be not used by anyone else, because president heard about the jailbreaking for the first time I guess. With this genius logic they soon be banning GPT 5.5.

No it’s not. A company that finds itself the target of potentially crippling government intervention is not an attractive investment.

  • It might be if all you're seeking is large-cap stocks with lots of volatility you can leverage that are here to stay for the long haul. Also, the market doesn't seem to believe that Trump will be in power forever.

don't think so; retail investors would see this as a barrier that the government can place anytime they want, and assume that government intervention is constantly lurking in the shadows.