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

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

 

On Sun, Mar 1, 2026 at 6:03 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

 >>> John you persist in getting caught up in politics. 

 

>>… And  STILL no answer to my very simple question. You just can't say it….

 

> OK.  What was the question? 

 

>…Spike, do you really expect me to believe you don't know the question after I've repeated it twice? You realize that what POTUS said was nonsense but you are unable to say so, I suppose you feel that any criticism of the chief of your tribe would be a betrayal….

 

John, you STILL don’t get it.  POTUS is a civilian, but he is a military commander as well.  They aren’t going to tell you everything they are doing, in fact they may direct you to a decoy.  This is all fair game in war.  The USA is at war.

 

We don’t know what kind of deal the military has going with any of the AI companies, or what they have been doing with them in the past.  We don’t know if the military has covert data centers, and cannot determine that based on a lack of cooling towers.  Reasoning: the Navy has had nuclear powered carriers and subs since before I was born, since back in the days when you and Keith were bugging each other on the playground in elementary school.  So they build a shipboard reactor, then… what next?  Testing, lots of it.  Lots of testing before they can put it aboard one of their capital ships with a bunch of expensive sailors aboard.

 

Where does that testing take place?  You don’t know?  Why don’t you know?  Because they don’t advertise that.  They don’t want the commies to know where their nuclear fuel is stored or burned, they don’t want that place to be attacked.  So… they find a different way to get rid of waste heat, such as have a water to water heat exchanger and dump high volumes out at sea in deep water where it can’t be detected by the commies or Greenpeace.

 

Of course you can go with the cocky presumptuous assertion that since you can’t see it, they don’t have it.  If that makes you feel better, go right ahead.  Also assume that the military doesn’t have anyone as smart as you are.  If that makes you feel better, do go right ahead.  They don’t mind a bit if civilians underestimate them, for it makes their job easier.  You aren’t even asking where their compute facilities are, or even why they need them, which should be perfectly obvious: war gaming.  That’s their job.

 

Anthropic: the only information we have is what the press reports.  But the press doesn’t have security clearances.  They don’t know what is going on behind the scenes, they don’t know what is intentional military level disinformation.  We don’t know for sure what the government is doing with Amodei, all we have is his public statements.  We don’t know what the military is doing with his products.  Do you know?  Why don’t you know John?  Because the military doesn’t tell everything they do, and they tell some things they don’t do.  It’s the nature of warfare.

 

spike

 

 

 

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