A lot of people have criticized our planet's sole trillionaire as not humanitarian enough. But the truth is that Musk has done more for malaria than any man alive.

Thanks to his work at USAID, nearly a quintillion more Plasmodiums are alive today!

Ridglan Farms bred dogs for biomedical research. The FDA requires the safety of most new drugs to be proven in non-rodent animals before the drug can go into humans in a clinical trial. That is typically dogs or monkeys.

Factory farming of animals is an unnecessary evil. But nobody panics.

Biomedical research on animals is a necessary evil. But everyone loses their minds!

Taking an Outside View, there is a ton of historical precedent for people believing that the best thing they could do for the world is to ensure that their Group is in power.

But spending money to help the world's poorest people in the most effective ways possible, while asking for nothing in return? Now that's pretty cool and interesting.

In hindsight, I regret putting Bernie’s name in the topic title and question. Most Americans already know what they think about Bernie, so I wonder to what extent that’s influencing people’s answers.

Your section "Mythos can hide its thoughts" reminds me a lot of the juncture in AI2027, where the fictional AI company must decide whether to press ahead with a model whose alignment properties were hazy. Something that's unclear from your essay:

Does Anthropic intend to correct the faulty safety training of Mythos (and Claude4.6)?

This seems like a case where disclosure is not enough -- they need to rectify the mistake in order to make these AIs as safe as possible. Especially since Claude4.6/Mythos are likely to be used for the training & alignment of Claude6 and beyond.

The retaliation against Anthropic by labeling them a supply chain risk is indeed illegal. Congress authorized DoD to label companies as supply chain risks under very specific circumstances - the goal is to prevent foreign adversaries from infiltrating their components into our weapons systems. Hegseth flagrantly abused this power in a contract dispute with an American company. Anthropic has sued, and they will win in court.

In the meantime, the question is whether American companies who do business with both DoD and Anthropic will comply with the illegal decree. Will those companies cut off their business with Anthropic?

Having Congress stand up for the law will strengthen the spines of those companies. That is why I believe contacting your representatives is helpful on the margin.

I appreciate the different perspectives @Aithir , and it takes guts to go against the crowd (I upvoted). What do you think EAs should do differently? Both inside and outside of Anthropic

I counted 13 lies. Not bad for 140 characters!

Welcome to the forum! For videos specifically, John & Hank Green have an enormous number of subscribers, and they're pretty EA as far as I'm concerned. Just last week their vlogbrothers videos discussed treating tuberculosis in the Philippines.

One thing I'd love to have is an EA Workout Playlist on Spotify. Music is cool. Fitness is cool. I'd love to have that in my daily routine.