Comment by ben_w
6 hours ago
"We didn't even notice our agent was committing crimes against your government" is a way to get an extradition notice, and/or whatever the (in this case Australian) equivalent of a CIA assassination squad is*, sent after you.
While I wouldn't put it past e.g. Musk or Zuckerberg to think themselves above such outcomes, and I trust the people who keep telling me Altman is just as bad, this is a really really terrible idea if he is doing that for something as mundane as a regulatory capture.
* depending on the details of the hack; this doesn't look like it would be that, but given they shouldn't have done this at all, there's no reason to predict a specific level of maximum damage before being caught, and hence no reason to predict a specific threshold for government response.
I think the equivalent of sending a CIA assassination squad is to introduce the person to some authentic Australian wildlife. Exit Sam Altman persued by funnel-web spiders, drop bears and crazed wombats.
Drop bears are fictitious FYI
Imagine my huge surprise!
Next thing you'll tell me the Australian government doesn't have crack teams of crazed wombats and funnel-web spiders, trained for assassination purposes.
> and/or whatever the (in this case Australian) equivalent of a CIA assassination squad is*, sent after you
Sounds like a great concept for the next season of Danger 5.
I think Danger 5 are far too silly for that; if this was fictionalised, I think a more straightforward Bond plot, like how Elliot Carver in "Tomorrow Never Dies" was transparently a mix of Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell.
That said, I can hear the accent in my head:
Character's public domain soon, why not an Australian version?