> And what does that have to do with American tax payer money?
That's the responsibility that comes when deeming oneself to be the world police. When Iran falls, Yemen falls, and there's one less impedance to shipping lanes on this world.
The human cost will be less than the people the Mullahs have already murdered.
The people have already been going on the streets, knowing about the brutality, and gotten mowed down by machine gun fire. A lot of Iranians are ready to lay down their lives if it means the end to the Mullahs.
This is nice rhetoric but ignores the fact that the elected officials are bought out by other billionaires. The US is an oligarchy in a republics clothing.
Half of that budget gets contracted out to Lockheed, Raytheon, Northrop, Boeing, General Dynamics, etc. Those companies absolutely do spend money on the hyperscalers.
obviously, I was never suggesting that the DoD spends $961b a year on cloud computing.
Look, it’s a very simple question: Amazon has invested $8b into anthropic. Do you think if the DoD disappeared tomorrow that Amazon would lose more than $8b in revenue over the next 5 years?
I think you underestimate how large the DoD budget is and how many times that money changes hands in the pursuit of fulfilling contracts. $20b-$25b in revenue per year across all hyperscalers is a totally reasonable estimate.
I'm just curious, do you understand that the DoD isn't saying it won't do business with Anthropic. Its saying it will also ban any company that does business with the DoD (so 90% of large enterprises?) from doing business from Anthropic. Are you aware of this?
Yes, I am aware. That is not entirely unreasonable if it touches the actual Supply Chain tree. I do fully sympathize that the extent of legality of that rule should be clarified/restricted if say, Claude is used by a separate division unrelated to DoD business. I think courts will resolve this, likely fairly quickly via an injunction.
A potential customer who is a non-idiot will be able to work around idiotic business practices, while a potential customer who is an idiot won't be able to work around good business practices.
Hence, you grab more customers by catering to idiots. Unless you as a business want to avoid these clients.
Yep. I had the same experience. Except for me, it was someone I've never heard of read before, so I was none the wiser and assumed it was real. 30 minutes in I go "man this guy is really shit there's no way he should have this much credit" and I check the description and it says the same "based on X".
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