Justin Witt

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

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[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

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[Sterling Snow @sterlingmsnow]

I believe we will answer to God one day for any potential within us that we did not fully develop.

[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.

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@WeAreLegora congrats on the citator!

Given the importance of these tools to the great lawyers we serve, @MaxJunestrand how about we test all four publicly. @Westlaw @LexisNexis should join. Tests should be live-streamed.

While we are at it, let’s test your search and retrieval against ours. Same docs, same prompts. Shared results. Again, we should run live-streamed for all to see. @harvey (@winstonweinberg) you too?

We can set this up immediately.

[Tyrell @iiTzz_Tyrell]

If you’re:

Texas, head to head matters against Vanderbilt

Notre Dame head to head doesn’t matter against Miami

Texas A&M, (11-1) a loss to a team below you keeps you in the top 10

BYU (11-1) a loss to a team above you keeps you out of the top 10

Alabama (10-2) a loss to a 5-7 team doesn’t matter

Utah (10-2) 2 losses to 2 top 12 teams, you’re #15

Texas (9-3) a loss to a 4-8 team doesn’t matter, you’re ahead of Utah

Burn the system and committee to the ground. What the hell are we doing

[Justin Witt @Justin_T_witt]

@jasonmcgowan @kalanifsitake I'm a lifelong BYU fan. My oldest daughter is 8, the path to getting her to enjoy sitting down & watching BYU football with me started with videos of @kalanifsitake dancing with the team. He's made it more than football, its how a father & daughter get time to meaningful connect.

[BoozeCougs @BoozeCougs]

This comes only 12 hours after Colorado fans chanted “F*ck the Mormons!” Religious persecution is alive and well in the US.

[Justin Witt @Justin_T_witt]

I’m open to theological debates but please…not today.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Catholic and Protestant friends: Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints are today mourning the death of their beloved leader, President Nelson. At the same time, they are in shock at a murderous assault at a church in Michigan. This is NO TIME for theological disputations! The only thing we should be saying right now is this: "We stand in loving solidarity with you, dear brothers and sisters."

[Josh James @joshjames]

I agree. This really bothers me. I hope the shooting is unrelated to hating on Mormons but it is extremely hard to witness “F the Mormons” pervasively chanted at government-supported institutions during sporting events without repercussions. And then the next day to see your people helpless and under attack…. Something needs to be done! @BasedMikeLee @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk

[Dan LeFevre @dan_lefev]

Kyle Whittingham can still win the game if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing

[Funky 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @Benaskren]

Guys I’m not watching basketball and I’m sure as hell not tweeting about it. Real men are watching wrestling this weekend.

[Spencer Cox @SpencerJCox]

Feels like many misunderstand the difference between bond holders/stockholders/executives and depositors. No one is arguing to bail out the bank. Equity holders should lose everything. But depositors (who did nothing speculative) can’t access their $ to make payroll this week. 1/

[@jason @Jason]

YOU SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED RIGHT NOW — THAT IS THE PROPER REACTION TO A BANK RUN & CONTAGION

@POTUS & @SecYellen MUST GET ON TV TOMORROW AND GUARANTEE ALL DEPOSITS UP TO $10M OR THIS WILL SPIRAL INTO CHAOS

[Justin Witt @Justin_T_witt]

@ryanmckeen @Delta Flying Delta is like owning a good pair of shoes, it doesn’t seem like a big deal until it’s a big deal.

[Justin Witt @Justin_T_witt]

A broad view is more powerful than a long view.

[Justin Witt @Justin_T_witt]

@RyanM_Anderson Whats at the top of my “to don’t list” is much more important than what’s at the top of my “to do list”

[Justin Witt @Justin_T_witt]

@benaird34 @Delta At least they give you plenty of leg room 🥴

[Justin Witt @Justin_T_witt]

@JoshMalina But what about a Sports Night reboot?

[Lauren Burroughs @LoloBurroughs]

How many wrestling families forgo coffee tables? I was thinking I’d get one when the kids get older but then it hit me that the living room serving as an additional practice room is a actually a lifetime commitment.