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Comment by naturalmovement

6 hours ago

Dario's job is to be a cheerleader.

He likely does not have the domain knowledge nor is authorized to be the recipient of such a letter.

And that's ok. His role is to hire others competent in export matters. It's a learning experience for them.

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nl  5 hours ago

I think you are missing some context here.

One of the contributing factors that led to this control in the first place was that the commerce department couldn't get Dario on a call immediately:

"Then White House started reaching out to Anthropic to speak with Dario Amodei, who was at a wellness retreat.... When Amodei was finally available past 1pm, he had three tense phone calls with a combo of ppl including Cairncross, Bessent, Lutnick, Kessler, Will Scharf, Richard Walters, and Walker Barrett."

https://x.com/SophiaCai99/status/2065942612293365948

Anthropic has disputed that Dario was at a wellness retreat but both sides seem agree that it seemed to be a problem (and it is very apparent that Dario's response made things worse).

  • naturalmovement  2 hours ago

    That link really sheds light on things.

    It's shocking to me that Anthropic seems to be run with the same managerial chaos as depicted in early seasons of Entourage.

    Dario may be a genius, but when it comes to running a big business — which involves dealing with governments and regulators — it's like he just fell off a turnip truck.