They’re not doing it on purpose. The people currently making these decisions do not understand the government, what it does, why it is powerful, where the money comes from, etc. It’s like someone stripping the copper wiring out of their own house.

Most companies that have open source products make their money in providing support for it to other companies, so theoretically OpenAI could do that (in fact top level AI developers are pretty rare so they could charge way more than other companies do for consulting) but that wouldn’t be a hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars business plan because it’s much too sensible.

I think this post is more about the “key aviation safety advisory committee” being gutted right before the worst air disaster in over a decade.

you were gay if your index finger was shorter than your ring finger

And then when they hold up their hand to check, you slap it into their face.