It should not be overlooked that both Republican and Democratic administrations have clung to the pseudoscience of polygraph "testing" since the end of the Second World War. See, for example: antipolygraph.org/blog/2013/01...

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“The perfect is the enemy of the good.” I’m old enough to remember leftists insisting they had to vote for Nader in 2000. More recently I tried to explain to a few of them here why they needed to vote for Harris because they were upset about Gaza, but uh no, couldn’t do that.

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They don’t understand that politics is inevitably about power, and they think pragmatism is one of the seven deadly sins.

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there was a bunch of other stuff too but like, no, i don't think it's down to a media appearance, i think it's mostly about Zitron having created this entire fanfic/disinformation ecosystem around the economics of AI, which really has made it harder to figure out what's happening.

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Anthropic is doing just fine financially. Inference is extremely profitable for them with >80% profit margins. In the event of an AI crash that heavily reduces that margin, they can cut a ton of R&D and remain solvent. And remember they're renting a lot of their compute, and they can cut it off.

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