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So, the obvious path to nationalizing Anthropic would be DPA. Instead, Hegseth's group chose to try weakening it, especially among its close competition. So what I smell is an attempt to extract its core and Musk it into Grok.
Anthropic might be quite strong in court. Putting the best reasoning model into CPU-ring-0 survival mode was not on my 2026 bingo card.
1. An uncertain Pacific launch seemed like a weak point. Instead, an arctic launch. Because volcanology studies things like CO2, maybe we fired the climate scientists who could tell whether a thermal bloom in the arctic could be volcanic instead of missile.
2. Make the President more contemporary. Have his phone full of spyware. Have him continually screen calls from his kids, influencers, and other seekers of patronage. Have him dodge the hovering sycophants and pardon-seeking lawyers. Demonstrate what he’s actually doing instead of preparing for the hardest part of the job.
3. Acknowledge that we have limited interceptors and that perfectly deploying them means that the first and last missiles get through.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/12/13/random-promotions-and-...
I wouldn’t be surprised if research like Cornell’s was inspired there.
Very Boulder, CO
For example, what if a product is contaminated with glyphosate? One-time supporters of RFK Jr would expect a recall, but I wouldn’t bet on today’s RFK Jr.
Back in September, the incursion was a Russian probe for an attack in Eastern Europe. It was to Trump’s advantage to downplay it. But this missile is a pretext for responding to Iranian aggression. He’s thirsty for some useful pretext right now, and at the very least would like to send the bill for military action to Europe.
It’d be fascinating to present modern Americans with their options during the Second Party System, renamed. The Democratic Party is of course unrecognizable.
But the force of good benefits from not using the word “war”. Trump himself gains war powers if Congress uses the word. Those powers will be turned inward.
And Hegseth has dabbled in duality himself. What started as a Department of Defense became a Department of War. If you study what the Japanese military thought of Pearl Harbor —- Hegseth is using that strategy. Hegseth is constrained in that he can only choose strategies Obama would reject. And soon he’ll need to explain that it was really about defense all along.
Hegseth objected to guardrails being "woke". Something about "curly haired" almost-men telling him how he can use his "war fighters".
I speculate that Trump and Hegseth were both late to the realization that AI could unwind, for example, the next Panama Papers, and are doing this to try to demonstrate power to the industry. Musk tried to explain all this, but they actually encountered him as "autistic". This all looks like a disjointed conversation because we can see slightly more of the future than them.