Keith Rice

From time immemorial...

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.

What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.

Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.

It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.

Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle.

It starts with METR.

Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models.

He proposes METR for this purpose.

But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.

Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio.

And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem.

This stock was worth $500 million early last year.

It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later.

METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth.

Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.

But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much.

The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all.

The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll.

If this were the end of it, that's bad.

But that isn't all.

The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom.

The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others.

They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's.

All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile.

As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder.

Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created.

From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts.

This itself is an objective fact.

The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it.

But the problem also goes in the other direction:

If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die.

Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen.

Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly.

They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic.

And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly.

What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations.

The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture.

And that feedback loop is winning.

That's what Jacob Coxon is.

China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China.

America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level.

Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences.

Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully.

It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America.

Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear.

Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers.

Congress must investigate.

Evidence and Github in next post.

Then some supplementary figures.

[Keith Rice @BenaiahEhud]

Anthropic complains a lot about regulation and misuse all while not having the internal systems to keep non-US citizens from using Fable 5. Our enemies used their system to attack us. Sounds like an Anthropic problem, not a US policy problem.

[Keith Rice @BenaiahEhud]

Thanks @EA for ruining a favorite pastime with my son by requiring secure boot. I’m not editing bios settings. I already miss the fun times we’ve had. Too bad I wasted my money and time on your games.

[Blake Flayton @blakeflayton]

When I think of Yarden Bibas I think of when I was in Hebrew school and learned of the book of Job. Even at six(?) years old I couldn’t for the life of me understand why God would do something like that to a member of his chosen people. None of the answers the teacher nor the rabbi when I asked the same question years later gave me were good enough. So I ask my believing followers, out of a place of deep bewilderment concerning your convictions, why would our God make us bear this? Why would our God make Yarden Bibas bear this?

[Yasmine Mohammed 🦋 ياسمين محمد @YasMohammedxx]

On March 11, 1978, Dalal Mughrabi, a 19-year-old Palestinian woman, led a group of 13 terrorists from Lebanon by boat and landed on an Israeli beach between the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. Realizing that they had missed their target destination of Tel Aviv, the group casually ate lunch on the beach, then ran into nature photographer Gail Rubin, a New Yorker and the niece of a U.S. senator. They asked her for directions to Tel Aviv and then Mughrabi shot Rubin point blank.

[Keith Rice @BenaiahEhud]

@kcpolice @gladstonepdmo @PlatteCoSheriff @SheriffClayCo @MSHPTrooperA @MissouriRevenue Just what the founding fathers envisioned 😍

[Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll @skjask]

Just saw a horrible story related by a soldier back from Gaza. 3 kids on bikes approached soldiers in tanks. The soldiers told them to not to be there but they didn't leave until the soldiers shot in the air.

A little while later, terrorists came and shot an RPG at the tank killing two soldiers.

The kids were acting as spotters for Hamas telling them where the soldiers were and because the Israelis cared about the children's lives & didn't shoot them, they were killed by the terrorists who sent kids into a war zone.

This is who we are fighting

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Israeli-Maronite priest Yousef Yakoub, from Haifa, tells Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon to mind their own business.

“We Christians are loyal citizens of the State of Israel. It’s not your concern who we meet or don’t meet”.

This is a response to Hezbollah for calling Christian citizens of Israel ‘traitors to the Arab nation’, following the meeting between Church leaders and Israeli president Isaac Herzog.

[Michal @itsmichalll]

This is Nizar Banat, a Palestinian activist and human rights defender.
Nizar spoke about corruption in the Palestinian Authority and criticized its policies.
His leadership and presence threatened them, so the PA imprisoned him.
the next morning the PA told Banat's family that his situation deteriorated overnight and he "passed away".
When asked about the body, the PA said they already buried him.
They buried him so the family wouldn't see the marks of violence and torture that caused his death.
The PA currently exerts partial civil control in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Philadelphia (Bustleton & Castor Avenue , home to a large Orthodox Jewish community) - CAIR throws up a billboard:
- NOT denouncing Hamas
- NOT calling for the return of kidnapped hostages being held in Gaza (INCLUDING Americans)

Instead, the billboard is making claims of a bogus "siege", pointing the finger at Israel.

[Deysy Tacza @deysytacza]

The 'Nakba':

"We called for Jewish genocide. We left to make it easier for our brothers to kill the Jews. We lost. The Jews offered peace even after winning the war, and we said no. We continued fighting. They kicked us out. Now we are victims.

How dare they kick us out?!"

[Harris Sultan @TheHarrisSultan]

In 628AD, the Prophet Muhammad attacked a Jewish tribe at Khaybar. The chief of Khaybar was killed on Muhammad's orders while his daughter's husband, Kenana, was tortured on Muhammad's orders to extract information regarding the tribe's treasury.

According to Tabari, Muhammad's exact words were:
"Torture him until you root out and extract what he has." According to Ibn Hisham, Muhammad said "Torture him until you extract what he has." Al-Tabari, Vol. 8, p. 122

Kenana stood steadfast and did not reveal any information to the bandits so upon Muhammad's orders, Zubayr "kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud." Ref. The Life of Muhammad 145-146

As always, the women were distributed among Muhammad's men as sex slaves. The most beautiful woman of the tribe was Safiyya, who also happened to be the chief's daughter. She was given to Dihya Al-Kalbi until the prophet heard of her beauty. The prophet was so turned on by her beauty that he ordered Dihya to pick someone else and leave her to him.

Some sources say the prophet slept with her the same night, while some other sources say he slept with her after three days. In one story, a soldier stood outside of the prophet's tent keeping watch over Safiyyah. When Muhammad saw him the next morning and asked why he was standing there, he said: 'You just killed her father, husband, and brother, so I did not trust her (not to harm) you.'

The great prophet laughed and said, 'Good.'

In another narration, Safiyyah and her sister were brought to Muhammad by his adopted son Zayed. One of the sisters started screaming hysterically after seeing the dead bodies of her tribesmen. Instead of showing empathy, the great prophet called her a 'she-devil' and kicked her out. Poor Safiyyah maintained her composure but ended up getting raped by the murderer of her father, brother, and husband. Ref. Tabari Vol 8, Page 185.

Safiyyah's sacrifice would not go in vain as another Jewess would poison Muhammad and he would die a painful death some 5 years later. According to Muhammad, he felt as if "someone has cut off my aorta". (Ref. Dawuud 4512)

This is the character of the "world's greatest man" who would kill people during the day and then sleep with their female family members at night.

References: Muslim 1365F, Bukhari 2893, 2228 & 947,371 The life of Muhammad Pages 514-515,

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

No ceasefire. Destroy Hamas.

[Moshe Schwartz @YWNReporter]

UPDATE: NSC Spokesperson John Kirby confirms the USS Dwight D Eisenhower carrier strike group will be headed to the Mediterranean but says it will not join the USS Gerald R. Ford strike group as a second strike group, but will be available in the area if needed.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The beautiful Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza.

Despite numerous posts claiming it was destroyed, the Church has not sustained any damage (so far).

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

I just received a call from an official channel to discuss the message that Israel is putting out there.

I’ve thought about this for a long time. I believe Israel’s message needs to change.

The victim narrative simply doesn’t communicate the right message. If we are playing the victim card, as soon as we retaliate with all our force, that narrative gets thrown out and now we become the aggressor.

The right message here is that Israel, as you might know, is a country focused on building, on bettering society, on making our planet a better place.

Our enemies, radical Islam, and I don’t care if they call themselves Hamas, al-Qaeda, ISIS, or Hezbolloh (it’s all the same garbage and human waste) has dedicated their existence to destruction.

Destruction not only of Israel but of the whole western world. Israel is only their first stop.

You don’t have to be a genius to see it. They say it loud and clear. Death to Israel. Death to America. To them, the west is the west. Period.

So no, we are not victims despite experiencing one of the worst days in our history.

They went too far this time and I’m pretty sure they realize that and they know what’s about to happen.

So Israel’s message is not that we’re a victim. It’s that we build, they destroy.

And for us to continue building, we need to eliminate those who continuously destroy the goodness we bring. We need to totally eliminate the evil and that is exactly what we’ll do over the next few days and weeks.

If you want to help, please try to tell your audience about all the good Israel does. About all the life saving tech. About all the healthcare, the agriculture, and more.

Please share the goodness. And the contrast between Israel and its enemies will speak for itself. I don’t think we need to spell that out or show the gut wrenching videos.

We need to spread good. Because that’s who we are and what we stand for. Good. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

Thread of videos showing Palestinian cruelties to Israeli civilians on Oct 7, 2023.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Burning down homes with Jewish families hiding in them, hoping they would come out so you can slaughter them is not freedom fighting.