Comment by throwaway27448
1 day ago
I was primarily referring to the acquisition of musk's ai company. But the more general (and unfortunately widely accepted practice of) government contracting culture certainly applies to OpenAI and Anthropic as well.
EDIT: cleaned up my comment; removed a more inflammatory claim about corruption in the private sector.
Who has delivered better value for money on government contracts than SpaceX?
You can't make that claim for a company that's as deep in the red as SpaceX is. With all of the VC subsidies, the cost of delivering the product isn't reflected in the price they charge.
> Who has delivered better value for money on government contracts than SpaceX?
We cannot answer this question without completely rearranging how we grant contracts. It doesn't matter: any single provider of a service will fuck us over. Even fucking libertarians can see this