Obviously the true political point is the geopolitical security risk of depending on another country. There's some truth there but really all countries depend on all others and the way to balance it is to use and grow the trading leverage you do have, not trying to shore up your weaknesses.

I'm interested to know, WHY is PC so open? what led to that?

I do think it's probably true that his influence flagged after Mythos. But he'd already been moved to the science board when that dropped.

It's very over stated and looking to act like he was fired, which he wasn't.

An article about a person 'falling out of favor' is silly but I guess that's the vibe of the administration so fair enough.

Observation: people act like this challenge is unique to the young generation, but it certainly affected me (millennial). It was a long, scary process of getting comfortable talking to people. It's still hard! And I have to re-learn it in different phases of life:

>talking to people at school

>talking to people in college

>talking to girls at bars

>getting over the idea that I don't/shouldn't talk to girls at bars anymore, post-marriage

>talking to other parents, male or female, once becoming a parent

all different lessons, all challenging. all worth the effort.

I think there's a simpler explanation. Every leaked system prompt from every model pretty much includes instructions to "be helpful," and the models are trained to be assistants, not just general knowledge repositories or research tools.

My hunch is that's the core of the problem -- the system prompt.

in my experience it's actually a bad thing for industry to add very specific requirements for them to follow

Simply having a lot of money makes someone evil? Why? They are obviously all quite competitive in business but the philanthropy they've done is pretty crazy. Gates for example is giving away hundreds of billions of dollars. What does it even matter if he's compassionate or not if he's doing that?