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— quoting a thread involving vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin)

``` 🎭✓Ⓢ @deepfates · 14h shout out to Scott Alexander for putting my whole post in the blog about anthropic versus department of war, and giving me my new favorite epithet. If anyone asks, Yes. it's true. I am a weird renegade cyberpunk AI whisperer expert [Screenshot within screenshot, dark theme]: ...to hold to this high of a standard. Basically this looks like a real life Jones Foods scenario to me, and I suspect Claude will see it that way too. And it may not be apparent to other people yet, but Claude is more important than Donald Trump > vitalik.eth ✓ @VitalikButerin · 18h > It will significantly increase my opinion of @Anthropic if they do not back down, and honorably eat the consequences. > (For those who are not aware, so far they have been maintaining the two red lines of "no fully autonomous weapons" and "no mass surveillance of ... > Show more Vitalik is the inventor of Ethereum. Deepfates is a weird renegade cyberpunk AI whisperer expert (source) ```
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet thread about Anthropic vs. the (renamed) "Department of War" — likely a dispute over Anthropic's red lines on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, referenced approvingly by Vitalik Buterin, with the "Jones Foods" (Severance) analogy suggesting a company facing a moral test. Directly relevant to AI governance/policy threads Nathan tracks; connects to Anthropic's stated red lines being tested by defense contracting. The full text of deepfates's argument (referenced in an adjacent screenshot) that Anthropic should resist Department of War coercion for both ethical and Claude-character-formation reasons, arguing Claude's coherent persona/values (vs. GPT/Gemini/Grok's "incoherent persona design") is precisely why it's uniquely dangerous to compromise, and drawing a "Jones Foods" (Severance TV show) analogy. Substantively engages the same command-hierarchy/Constitution and compelled-values themes as the project's model-individuation notes.

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replies thread — Mike Marinos @mikemarinos

Mike Marinos @mikemarinos · 7h Robin Sloan's "Moonbound" comes close. [Link card: robinsloan.com — "Welcome to the Dragon Moon"] 1, 132 Christopher C. S... @christophcs... · 5h Banks has had lots of imitators. Reynolds, Tchaikovsky, Hamilton, Vinge. In a slightly different tradition, you have Shusterman. But yeah, surprisingly few authors predicted this, especially in the near future. 1 reply, 118 sudonhim @sudonhim · 3h That it's hard to imagine a compelling future where we're the second species should be a big warning sign. Vitalik noticed the same thing as you in his "My Techno Optimism" essay btw 2, 51 Markus Fix @lispmeister · 1h A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge explores this. He also coined the term Technological Singularity. 1, 19
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Continuation of the same science-fiction/AI-futures reply thread as the previous screenshot, recommending books that imagine humans as a "second species" alongside more powerful AI/posthuman entities, with a note that few authors depict this compellingly and a reference to Vitalik Buterin's "My Techno Optimism" essay. Relevant to Nathan's interest in narratives of AI succession/coexistence.

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