[ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

[John Clark]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 8:21 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> John we don’t know what the military has. *
>

*True, but we do know what the military does NOT have, they don't have a
faster than light fighter plane, and they don't have **an AI better than
Claude; otherwise they wouldn't be so upset with Anthropic, and they
wouldn't have signed a $200 million deal with Anthropic a short time ago,
just before He Who Must Not Be Named  threw a** hissy fit.*

*That reminds me, **you never answered my question. Do **you agree with He
Who Must Not Be Named that Anthropic is a "Radical Left AI company" run by
"Leftwing nut jobs" because they don't think an AI conducting mass
surveillance on the American people or an AI controlling a lethal weapon
without a human being in the decision pipeline are good ideas? Our drunken
Secretary Of Defense, oh I'm sorry I mean Secretary Of War, insists that
never in a million years would the military even dream of doing either of
those things, and yet he absolutely insists they have the ability to do
both of those things anyway. Don't you find that just a teeny tiny bit
suspicious? *

* > **AI conducting mass surveillance on US citizens predated the current
> POTUS.*


*Not like this. Because of modern AI it is now possible for the government
to know 1984 level details about every one of the 340 million Americans
that would have been impossible to know before; and although reprehensible
it would not be illegal because, as Dario Amodei explains, lawmakers are
unable to keep up with the exponential rapid advancements in AI.*

*Anthropic CEO responds to Trump order, Pentagon clash*
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTNHrq_4LU>

>

> *>>…Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield recently won a Nobel prize for work
>> they did in the field of AI in the 1980s, do you really think there  were
>> hundreds or thousands of people with similar or even greater ability that
>> were willing to work for the military for peanuts that we know nothing
>> about? Ridiculous!*
>
>
>  >...*You are the eight year old child lecturing grandparents on the
> topic of sex.  You don’t know what the military is doing in AI, and you
> rely on uninformed logic to convince yourself that you know what is going
> on.  You failed to convince us however. *


*Us? Who is "us"? *


> *> They have ways of covering their tracks, and it works. The atomic bomb
> was developed in complete secrecy. *
>

*No it was not! The Soviet Union knew the design of the device that
produced the very first nuclear explosion that occurred during the Trinity
test of August 1945 in the desert of New Mexico. And that's why the
first Russian nuclear bomb that exploded in August 1949 was IDENTICAL to
the Trinity Plutonium-239 bomb, down to the placement of screw holes; it
was also identical to the Nagasaki bomb (the Hiroshima uranium-235 bomb had
a different and much less efficient design). The Russian scientists were
afraid to change anything because they knew if their test didn't work
Stalin would have them shot, and they knew for a fact that the American
design would work.*

*The Russians knew all this thanks to 4 Communist spies who were working at
Los Alamos during World War II, they were in order of importance Klaus
Fuchs, Theodore Hall, Oscar Seborer, and David Greenglass; none of the 4
knew the others existed. Fuchs was a senior scientist who had access to
everything and knew all there was to know about the bomb, the information
from Hall, Seborer and Greenglass gave the Soviets confidence that all the
documents they were receiving from Fuchs were genuine and not
disinformation.*


> *> Do you believe the discombobulator cover story? *
>

*Of course I do! He Who Must Not Be Named said it was true and I can't
imagine him EVER telling a lie. I expect in just a few years MIT and
Caltech will start offering courses in Discombobulator Theory and a few
years after that somebody will win a Nobel Prize for discovering FTD, the
Fundamental Theory of Discombobulation. *


> *> Do you know where DARPA’s AI money goes?  Can you figure it out with
> logic?*
>

*No, even DARPA doesn't know where all its money goes, I think it's
probably one of Godel's and Turing's undecidable questions. *

*> Do you know what goes on way up on the base at China Lake California,
> where you and I cannot go?  You can see buildings up there, in Google Earth
> view.  If there was a facility up there doing something with AI, can logic
> help you figure out what it is?  Do share.*
>

*It's where the military is building an anti-gravity drive that they
reverse engineered from a flying saucer that crashed in Roswell New Mexico
in 1947. That theory is just as logical as yours.  *

*John K Clark *
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